Analysis On The Differences And Related Factors Of American Traditional Chinese Medicine Development From Population Data

To research the foreign health and sub-health system is one of the directions of sub-health researches’ areas. In this paper, by searching the literature on the health and sub-health fields in China and the USA, analyzing the development and research profiles of the field of complementary and alternative medicine in the USA, and analyzing the profiles and research status of development of Chinese medicine and acupuncture (TCM) in the United States, it is found that there is no system and scientific reports about developmental states, trends and influencing factors of TCM in the USA currently.In order to empirically investigate the development states, influencing factors and development trends of Chinese medicine in US states, TCM practitioners number is used as index of development states of TCM, and obtained through the United States Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine TCM website http://www.nccaom.org to collect the number of registered Acupuncture practitioner in US states; and the relevant data of population, race, age, sex, education, and economic on48states are obtained through public network to the US census database website www.quickfacts.census.gov. Multivariate analysis of variance and Correlation analysis are used to analyze the relationship among the number of Chinese medicine practitioner in US states and census data on the population, race, age, sex, education, and economic in the States.It is found that the number of Chinese medicine practitioners in the states is uneven with very different, and the US states can be divided into three groups from high to low according to the numbers of Chinese medicine practitioners; Multivariate analysis of variance and Multiple comparison analysis shows the big differences among these three groups on population, race, age, sex, education, and economic; Correlation Analysis shows positively correlated between the number of Chinese medicine practitioners and these census data. It is concluded that there is uneven development of Chinese Medicine in the USA and the population, race, age, sex, education, and economic are related factors, in which economic is more important. This study is the first to use census data analysis for the development states of Chinese medicine in the United States.