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. 2009 Jan 21;7:4. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-4

Table 5.

Relationship between health worker density and under-five mortality

Dependent variable R2 Independent variables Coefficient Standard error P-value
Under-five deaths and health worker density. Linear model

Under-five deaths per capita 0.125 Medical officers/capita (MO) 4.56 4.57 0.321

Clinical officers/capita (CO) -3.28 2.17 0.134

AMOs and others/capita (AMO+) -0.47 0.46 0.301

Attendants/capita (ATT) 0.04 0.61 0.942

Under-five deaths and health worker density. Non-linear model

Under-five deaths per capita 0.199 MO 20.38 13.59 0.137

CO -9.43 5.87 0.111

AMO+ -2.04 0.82 0.015

ATT 1.08 1.24 0.383

MO2 -32658.62 28416.52 0.253

CO2 17247.5 11915.73 0.151

AMO+2 226.57 146.67 0.125

ATT2 -372.43 458.08 0.418