This is, for relatively simple health indicators such as the mortality rate and prevalence rate of diseases, whether communicable diseases or non-communicable diseases, the spatial pattern (clustering, dispersion or randomly distributed) generally shows a clear trend, while for complex health indicators such as life expectance at birth, maternal mortality ratio and total fertility rate, the spatial pattern and spatial stratified heterogeneity indicated by the q-statistics are not clearly put, as the value of the health indicators depend on other complicated statistics such as population, GDP, health facilities, and insurance systems.
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Regional differences and spatial patterns of health status of the member states in the "Belt and Road" Initiative.
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