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. 2019 Jun 13;19:377. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4141-y

Table 6.

Quantity - Quality Relationship of Health Clinics Distribution by Type of Clinic

# services available # CHEWs (Community Health Extension workers) # nurses # doctors
Panel A: Sample: Public PHC (1) (2) (3) (4)
Number of health clinics within 5 km 0.014*** (0.002) 0.019*** (0.003) 0.002** (0.001) 0.001** (0.000)
Proportion of good quality within 5 km 1.364*** (0.102) 1.404*** (0.129) 0.170*** (0.032) 0.068*** (0.021)
constant 5.470*** (0.031) 1.977*** (0.052) 0.225*** (0.013) 0.055*** (0.007)
N 14,018 14,018 14,018 14,018
r2 0.031 0.027 0.004 0.002
Panel B: Sample: Public Health Post/Dispensary (1) (2) (3) (4)
Number of health clinics within 5 km 0.012*** (0.004) 0.013*** (0.002) 0.003** (0.002) −0.000 (0.000)
Proportion of good quality within 5 km 0.612*** (0.124) 0.343*** (0.083) 0.020 (0.024) −0.000 (0.009)
constant 3.246*** (0.035) 1.193*** (0.022) 0.058*** (0.012) 0.024*** (0.004)
N 7638 7638 7638 7638
r2 0.008 0.008 0.002 0.000
Panel C: Sample: Public Hospital (1) (2) (3) (4)
Number of health clinics within 5 km 0.002 (0.020) 0.129*** (0.044) −0.010 (0.036) −0.031 (0.027)
Proportion of good quality within 5 km −0.221 (0.503) 1.511 (0.987) 1.442* (0.840) 0.814** (0.370)
constant 8.032*** (0.276) 0.947 (0.595) 2.219*** (0.484) 1.097*** (0.334)
N 559 559 559 559
r2 0.001 0.073 0.016 0.023
LGA FE X X X X

Notes: * significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%