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EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGY, CONTENT AND
METHODOLOGY OF SOME STATISTICAL INDICATORS ON
HEALTH, CULTURE, SPORTS, LIVING STANDARD, SOCIAL SAFETY,
JUSTICE, NATURAL DISASTER DAMAGE AND ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH

Patient bed is used for patients at the healthcare establishments excluding
beds for persons on duty, and beds in the examining and waiting rooms of the
healthcare establishment, beds in health station in wards/communes/towns,
institutions.
Doctors include: Doctors, masters, doctorates, professors, associate
professors with professional qualifications in medicine and holding a doctor's
degree or higher, currently working in the health sector.

Rate of under-5-year children’s malnutrition by level of malnutrition

• Children of weight-for-age malnutrition: Under-5-year children have
weight-for-age less than minus 2 standard deviation (-2SD) of the median weight
of World Health Organization (WHO) reference population.

Number of under-5-year children
Rate of under-5-year of weight-for-age malnutrition
children of weight-for-age = × 100
malnutrition (%) Number of weighted
under-5-year children
• Children of height-for-age malnutrition: Under-5-year children have
height-for-age less than minus 2 standard deviation (-2SD) of the median height
of WHO reference population.

Number of under-5-year children
Rate of under-5-year of height-for-age malnutrition
children of height-for-age = × 100
malnutrition (%) Number of measured
under-5-year children

• Children of weight-for-height malnutrition: Under-5-year children have
weight-for-height less than minus 2 standard deviation (-2SD) of the median
weight of WHO reference population.

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