Table 2. Health care providers who: (a) have diagnosed, and (b) notified a notifiable communicable disease in the preceding year, South Africa, by sector, professional category and province, 2015.
| a) Health Care Providers who have diagnosed a notifiable disease in the preceding year | |||||||||
| i) By Sector | |||||||||
| Sector | No | Yes | Unsure | Total | P-valuec | ||||
| Public | 231 (37) | 397 (62) | 11 (1) | 639 (100) | |||||
| Private | 128 (56) | 113 (43) | 3 (1) | 244 (100) | 0.001* | ||||
| Total | 359 (41) | 510 (58) | 14 (1) | 883 (100) | |||||
| ii) Doctors by Province | |||||||||
| Province | Public Sector | Private Sector | |||||||
| No | Yes | Unsure | Total | No | Yes | Unsure | Total | ||
| Gauteng | 9 (8) | 81 (92) | 0 (0) | 90 (46) | 2 (17) | 12 (83) | 0 (0) | 14 (40) | 0.094 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 6 (6) | 61 (93) | 1 (1) | 68 (30) | 3 (9) | 14 (91) | 0 (0) | 17 (48) | 0.715 |
| Limpopo | 2 (1) | 38 (98) | 1 (2) | 40 (24) | 0 (0) | 8 (100) | 0 (0) | 8 (11) | 0.902 |
| Total | 17 (6) | 180 (94) | 2 (1) | 197 (100) | 5 (11) | 34 (89) | 0 (0) | 39 (100) | 0.199 |
| iii) Professional Nurses by Province | |||||||||
| Gauteng | 97 (59) | 59 (40) | 3 (1) | 159 (43) | 53 (65) | 28 (34) | 1 (1) | 82 (42) | 0.512 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 84 (42) | 96 (57) | 5 (2) | 185 (35) | 57 (59) | 39 (41) | 0 (0) | 96 (45) | 0.019* |
| Limpopo | 33 (43) | 62 (54) | 1 (1) | 96 (21) | 13 (48) | 12 (44) | 2 (7) | 27 (13) | 0.502 |
| Total | 214 (49) | 217 (49) | 9 (2) | 440 (100) | 123 (60) | 79 (39) | 3 (1) | 205 (100) | 0.073 |
| b) Health Care Providers who have notified the diagnosed disease(s) in the preceding year | |||||||||
| i) By Sector | |||||||||
| Sector | No | Yes | Unsure | Total | |||||
| Public | 26 (5) | 358 (92) | 11 (3) | 395 (100) | |||||
| Private | 11 (6) | 100 (92) | 2 (1) | 113 (100) | 0.602 | ||||
| Total | 37 (6) | 458 (92) | 13 (3) | 508 (100) | |||||
| ii) Doctors by Province | |||||||||
| Province | Public Sector | Private Sector | |||||||
| No | Yes | Unsure | Total | No | Yes | Unsure | Total | ||
| Gauteng | 7 (7) | 73 (93) | 1 (0.1) | 81 (46) | 1 (4) | 11 (96) | 0 (0) | 12 (40) | 0.720 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 8 (11) | 48 (80) | 5 (9) | 61 (30) | 3 (10) | 10 (87) | 1 (3) | 14 (48) | 0.906 |
| Limpopo | 2 (3) | 35 (94) | 1 (2) | 38 (24) | 2 (25) | 6 (75) | 0 (0) | 8 (11) | 0.115 |
| Total | 17 (7) | 156 (89) | 7 (4) | 180 (100) | 6 (10) | 27 (89) | 1 (2) | 34 (100) | 0.736 |
| iii) Professional Nurses by Province | |||||||||
| Gauteng | 4 (6) | 53 (91) | 1 (3) | 58 (43) | 3 (11) | 25 (89) | 0 (0) | 28 (42) | 0.189 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 3 (2) | 91 (97) | 1 (1) | 95 (35) | 2 (5) | 36 (92) | 1 (3) | 39 (45) | 0.368 |
| Limpopo | 2 (4) | 58 (93) | 2 (4) | 62 (21) | 0 (0) | 12 (100) | 0 (0) | 12 (13) | 0.688 |
| Total | 9 (4) | 202 (94) | 4 (2) | 215 (100) | 5 (6) | 73 (92) | 1 (1) | 79 (100) | 0.333 |
Weighted %. "Unsure" was regarded as missing data in the calculation of P-values.
* Significant P-value
c) Test specific P-values are from the Rao-Scott correction to the Chi-square Test [41]