Table 5.

Full regression analysis for predicting the influence of physician and nurse density and other socioeconomic variables on IMR, U5MR, MMR and LE at a global level

	IMR	U5MR	MMR	LE
Physician density	-0.140*	-0.248**	-0.389**	0.103**
Nurse density	0.011	0.091	-0.207*	-0.060**
Female literacy	-0.219	-0.331	-0.212	0.048
Health expenditure as % of GDP	-0.183	-0.031	-0.215	-0.030
Per capita gross national income (US$)	-0.405**	-0.515**	-0.368**	0.048**
R2	0.703**	0.784**	0.735**	0.709**
N	123	123	120	123

* p-value < 0.05

** p-value < 0.01