Equity assessment of the distribution of mental health beds in China: based on longitudinal data from 2011 to 2020

Table 3 Theil index of mental health bed allocation in the three regions from 2010 to 2020

	Year	East	Central	West	National	Inter-Region (%)	Intra-Region (%
Based on population	2011	0.058	0.013	0.053	0.05	0.008 (16.00)	0.042 (84.00)
	2012	0.048	0.014	0.053	0.044	0.005 (11.36)	0.039 (88.64)
	2013	0.043	0.014	0.052	0.039	0.003 (7.69)	0.036 (92.31)
	2014	0.038	0.019	0.05	0.037	0.002 (5.41)	0.035 (94.59)
	2015	0.035	0.022	0.053	0.037	0.002 (5.41)	0.035 (94.59)
	2016	0.034	0.024	0.056	0.038	0.002 (5.26)	0.036 (94.74)
	2017	0.027	0.026	0.063	0.039	0.003 (7.69)	0.036 (92.31)
	2018	0.021	0.023	0.054	0.035	0.004 (11.43)	0.031 (88.57)
	2019	0.019	0.023	0.058	0.035	0.004 (11.43)	0.031 (88.57)
	2020	0.014	0.024	0.054	0.033	0.005 (15.15)	0.028 (84.85)
Based on area	2011	0.137	0.043	0.72	0.769	0.231 (30.04)	0.538 (69.96)
	2012	0.122	0.048	0.74	0.772	0.221 (28.63)	0.551 (71.37)
	2013	0.113	0.056	0.766	0.782	0.211 (26.98)	0.571 (73.02)
	2014	0.104	0.062	0.788	0.794	0.208 (26.20)	0.586 (73.80)
	2015	0.096	0.068	0.824	0.805	0.193 (23.98)	0.612 (76.02)
	2016	0.09	0.072	0.798	0.774	0.181 (23.39)	0.593 (76.61)
	2017	0.078	0.069	0.838	0.781	0.161 (20.61)	0.62 (79.39)
	2018	0.063	0.075	0.809	0.746	0.147 (19.71)	0.599 (80.29)
	2019	0.059	0.073	0.839	0.76	0.14 (18.42)	0.62 (81.58)
	2020	0.051	0.083	0.83	0.752	0.138 (18.35)	0.614 (81.65)

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