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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Geogr. 2017 Jun 9;85:62–72. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.05.005

Table 4.

Direct and indirect impacts of change in health care access, socioeconomic, and built environment variables on county DRMR.

Explanatory variables SDM Lag (Std. error) SDM impacts % of indirect impacts
Direct Indirect Total
Social capital index (SCI) 0.023*(0.010) 0.009 0.045** 0.054** 84.08
Socioeconomic index (SEI) 0.137***(0.018) −0.288*** 0.003 −0.286***
Income disparity (Gini coefficient) −1.011**(0.358) −1.222*** −2.687*** −3.908*** 68.75
Retail food environment index (RFEI) 0.113**(0.043) 0.091*** 0.264*** 0.355*** 74.37
Percent HH with low access to grocery stores 0.004(0.007) 0.008* 0.013 0.022
No. of hospital beds per 1000 population −0.002(0.003) −0.001 −0.004 −0.004
No. of active physicians per 1000 population 0.002(0.001) 0.001 0.005* 0.006* 82.62
Proportion of uninsured Adults 0.575(0.288) −0.579* 0.515 −0.064
Proportion of Blacks 0.197(0.114) 0.015 0.347* 0.362** 95.85
Proportion of Hispanics 0.316*(0.135) −0.082 0.471** 0.389** 85.17
Spatial proximity index (SPI) −0.214(0.127) 0.186** −0.215 −0.030
Proportion of adults meets PA guideline −0.923***(0.262) 0.279 −1.344*** −1.066*** 82.81
Percent of urban population −0.051(0.057) 0.183*** 0.060 0.243*

Significance levels:

***

< 0.001,

**

<0.01, &

*

<0.05.;

HH = households; PA = physical activity