Table 5.

Control variable coefficient values.

Variable	Male analysis coefficient	Female analysis coefficient
Population aged >65	−1.4778	−0.4714
Population aged <15	−0.7895	−0.2218
Population size	−0.0000	−0.0000
GDP per capita	0.0363	0.0185
Inflation	0.2212	0.0669
Interest rate	0.0688	0.0195
Hospital beds per 1,000	0.2695	0.0030
Physicians per 100,000	−0.9478	−0.2723
Out-of-pocket health expenditure	1.7849	0.4508
Public health expenditure	0.5691	0.0977
Calorific intake	−0.0795	0.0005
Prevalence of urbanisation	0.2687	0.1067
Access to clean water	0.9168	0.2787

GDP: gross domestic product.