A cost-effectiveness analysis of three components of a syndromic surveillance system for the early warning of epidemics in rural China

Table 1 Basic characteristics of Hubei and Jiangxi Provinces

Variables		Hubei	Jiangxi	China
Population in 2013 (millions)		58.00	45.00	1,361.00
Population density in 2013 (persons/sq.km)		326.00	262.00	137.00
Proportion of people in rural areas in 2013 (%)		45.49	51.13	46.27
Per capita GDP in 2013 (RMB)		42,613.00	31,771.00	41,908.00
Life expectancy in 2010 (years)^a		74.90	74.30	74.80
Notifiable infectious diseases in 2012^a(/10⁵)	Incidence	265.00	206.00	239.00
Notifiable infectious diseases in 2012^a(/10⁵)	Mortality	0.77	0.59	1.24

Footnotes: ^aData is quoted from the China Health Statistical Yearbook 2013 [31]; If not specified, data is from the China Statistical Yearbook-2014 [32], published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

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