Table 4.

Simulations predicting the impact of increased health staffing levels on child length and stunting.

Human resources	Change in length (cm)			Change in stunting (percentage points)
	1	2	3	4	5	6
	<18 months*	<24 months**	<36 months*	<18 months**	<24 months**	<36 months*
Medical doctors (MD)s
One***	0.249	0.266	0.248	−3.19	−2.73	−1.79
Two or more***	0.280	0.299	0.279	−3.59	−3.08	−2.02
Nurses
One	0.038	0.041	0.038	−0.49	−0.42	−0.27
Two	0.089	0.095	0.089	−1.14	−0.98	−0.64
Three or more**	0.163	0.175	0.163	−2.09	−1.79	−1.18
Midwives
One	0.050	0.053	0.049	−0.64	−0.54	−0.36
Two	0.053	0.056	0.052	−0.67	−0.58	−0.38
Three or more	0.037	0.039	0.036	−0.47	−0.40	−0.26
Where no MD is posted
+1 nurse	−0.006	−0.006	−0.006	0.08	0.07	0.04
+1 midwife**	0.081	0.087	0.081	−1.04	−1.04	−0.59

^*p ≤ 0.10 for regressions predicting impact of human resources on quality (Table 2) and the impact of quality on child anthropometrics (Table 3).

^**p ≤ 0.05.

^***p ≤ 0.01.