Table 3.

Association between cardiovascular SMR and health resources availability (primary health centres, pharmacies, nurses, medical appointments, hospitals and physicians), economic factors (PPI) and demographic characteristics (population) across the 278 counties

	Univariate			Multivariable
	r	B	p Value	B	p Value
Purchasing Power Index	0.452	1.585	<0.001	1.696	<0.001
Population size	0.279	0.262	<0.001	–	–
More than one primary health centre in the county	0.296	0.429	<0.001	0.210	0.017
Existence of a hospital in the county	0.115	0.110	0.056	−0.128	0.030
Number of pharmacies (1000 inhabitants/county)	−0.001	−0.002	0.988	0.286	0.020
Number of nurses (1000 inhabitants/county)	0.140	0.200	0.019	–	–
Number of medical appointments (inhabitants/county)	−0.212	−0.855	<0.001	–	–
Number of physicians (1000 inhabitants/county)	0.307	0.292	<0.001	–	–

r, Pearson's correlation; B, linear regression coefficient; PPI, Purchasing Power Index; SMR, standardised mortality rate.