Table 3 Regional variation, characteristics of 59 health service areas (averages of 2008–2010)
Characteristic | Average | Min | Max | HILO ratio‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Population size | 94301 | 1614 | 507789 | 314.6 |
Population density* | 303.4 | 26.4 | 1863.0 | 70.6 |
Number of hospitals | 2.4 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
Hospital beds per 10000 | 41.1 | 13.5 | 414.0 | 30.7 |
Primary care physicians per 10000 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 10.9 | 5.7 |
Specialists per 10000 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 6.2 | ? |
-Rate of avoidable hospitalizations†|  |  |  |  |
- Asthma | 21.5 | 2.2 | 79.5 | 36.1 |
- congestive heart failure | 236.2 | 146.0 | 569.2 | 3.9 |
- COPD | 122.0 | 55.4 | 252.9 | 4.6 |
- Diabetes | 74.1 | 30.4 | 136.3 | 4.5 |
- Hypertension | 59.9 | 18.4 | 207.0 | 11.3 |
- all ICD10 groups | 495.2 | 274.5 | 982.4 | 3.6 |