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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2008 Aug;9(8):721–729. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(08)70194-3

Table 5.

Correlation of health and economic indicators with paediatric cancer postulated 5-year survival in the surveyed countries

Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) Pearson r2 p
Government annual health-care expenditure per capita 0.939 0.882 <0.0001
Total annual health-care expenditure per capita 0.872 0.760 0.001
Per capita GDP 0.777 0.603 0.008
Per capita GNI 0.756 0.572 0.011
Physicians per thousand population 0.749 0.560 0.013
Nurses per thousand population 0.712 0.506 0.032
Human development index 0.631 0.398 0.050
Human poverty index −0.593 0.351 0.093
Under-5 mortality −0.577 0.333 0.081

GDP=gross domestic product. GNI=gross national income.