Table 1.
Health equipment in Brazil
| Variable | Number of municipalities1 | Mean | Std. dev. | Min. | Max. | Standard supply of the equipment [15] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone densitometer | 429 (7,71) | 3,8 | 12,27 | 1 | 202 | 1 for each 14,000 inhabitants |
| Dialysis equipment | 385 (6,92) | 47,14 | 114,1 | 1 | 1685 | 1 for each 1500 inhabitants |
| Hospital beds | 3675 (66,05) | 126,03 | 751,95 | 1 | 29,562 | 2.5 to 3 beds for each 1000 inhabitants2 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging | 257 (4,62) | 4,38 | 11,46 | 1 | 130 | 1 for each 500,000 inhabitants |
1Percentage of municipalities in parenthesis
2In this paper, we assume 2.75 hospital beds for each 1000 population