[ 55 ], who found that the annual growth rate of the comprehensive evaluation index for medical and health services in the eastern, central, and western regions of China showed a trend of eastern < central < western regions, while the annual growth rate of the comprehensive economic evaluation index was central < eastern < western.
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Unveiling spatial disparities in basic medical and health services: insights from China's provincial analysis.
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Conversely, the scores in the dimension of public health and medical security are not only relatively low but also show a decreasing trend year by year.
During the research period from 2012 to 2019, neither China as a whole nor its four major regions, the Northeast, East, Central, and West, showed a significant trend of σ -convergence, which differs from the findings of Xin et al.
However, in terms of β -convergence, China and its four regions have shown a clear trend, indicating that the disparities in the basic medical and health service levels among the provinces are narrowing, and there is an emerging pattern of provinces with lower service levels catching up with those with higher levels.