Table 2.
The availability of public health workers in primary health care with associated factors.
| Variables | Urban Areas (n=2424) | Rural Areas (n=4133) | Remote Areas (n=1943) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulfilled | Not Fulfilled | p-value | Fulfilled | Not Fulfilled | p-value | Fulfilled | Not Fulfilled | p-value | |
| Service capacity | |||||||||
| Inpatient | 359 (49.31) | 369 (50.69) | 0.108 | 1402 (70.24) | 594 (29.76) | 0.051 | 734 (76.78) | 222 (23.22) | 0.000 |
| Without inpatient | 776 (45.75) | 920 (54.25) | 1441 (67.43) | 696 (32.57) | 652 (66.06) | 335 (33.94) | |||
| Accreditation status | |||||||||
| Accredited | 1067(49.13) | 1105 (50.87) | 0.000 | 2440 (69.91) | 1050 (30.09) | 0.000 | 812 (76.17) | 254 (23.83) | 0.000 |
| Not accredited | 68 (26.98) | 184 (73.02) | 403 (62.67) | 240 (37.33) | 574 (65.45) | 303 (34.55) | |||
| Accreditation predicate | |||||||||
| Perfect | 14 (60.87) | 9 (39.13) | 0.334 | 14 (77.78) | 4 (22.22) | 0.357 | 2 (100.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0.496 |
| Prime | 164 (50.62) | 160 (49.38) | 257 (68.17) | 120 (31.83) | 20 (68.97) | 9 (31.03) | |||
| Medium | 588 (47.65) | 646 (52.35) | 1405 (69.21) | 625 (30.79) | 385 (75.05) | 128 (24.95) | |||
| Basic | 301 (50.93) | 290 (49.07) | 764 (71.74) | 301 (28.26) | 405 (77.59) | 117 (22.41) | |||
| Financial management system | |||||||||
| Regional public service agency | 461 (46.15) | 538 (53.85) | 0.576 | 1019 (70.03) | 436 (29.97) | 0.202 | 194 (72.66) | 73 (27.34) | 0.606 |
| Non-regional public service agency | 674 (47.30) | 751 (52.7) | 1824 (68.11) | 854 (31.89) | 1192 (71.12) | 484 (28.88) | |||