Table 5

Full regression analysis for predicting the influence of physician and nurse density and other socioeconomic variables on IMR, U5MR, MMR and LE at a global level


IMR
U5MR
MMR
LE

Physician density
-0.140*
-0.248**
-0.389**
0.103**
Nurse density
0.011
0.091
-0.207*
-0.060**
Female literacy
-0.219
-0.331
-0.212
0.048
Health expenditure as % of GDP
-0.183
-0.031
-0.215
-0.030
Per capita gross national income (US$)
-0.405**
-0.515**
-0.368**
0.048**
R2
0.703**
0.784**
0.735**
0.709**
N
123
123
120
123

* p-value < 0.05

** p-value < 0.01

El-Jardali et al. Human Resources for Health 2007 5:9   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-5-9