Table 6.

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

	IMR	U5MR	MMR	LE
Physician density
LMICs	-0.177**	-0.317**	-0.400**	0.101**
MHICs	-0.643**	-0.792**	-0.878**	0.186**
Nurse density
LMICs	-0.026	0.044	-0.284*	-0.034
MHICs	-0.197	-0.238	-0.397*	-0.032
Female literacy
LMICs	-0.573**	-0.689**	-0.491*	0.088*
MHICs	-4.277*	-5.250*	-5.051	0.344
Health expenditure as % of GDP
LMICs	-0.433**	-0.459*	-0.348	0.023
MHICs	0.090	0.310	0.405	-0.069
R2
LMICs	0.556**	0.636**	0.716**	0.615**
MHICs	0.584**	0.592**	0.485**	0.560**
N
LMICs	93	94	93	94
MHICs	46	46	43	46

* p-value < 0.05

** p-value < 0.01