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Table 2 Models for the association between the density of health professionals and the under-five mortality rate in rural China, 2008–2014

From: The impact of the health care workforce on under-five mortality in rural China

Variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

Full model

Interaction with poverty status

Interaction with GDP trajectory

Total number of health professionals

− 0.026**

− 0.011

− 0.007

0.007

0.007

0.007

Poverty status (non-poor group as the reference)

 Total HP # poor

 

− 0.057**

 
 

0.014

 

Trajectory of GDP per capita (medium group as the reference)

 Total HP # slowly rising

  

− 0.060**

  

0.014

 Total HP # rapidly rising

  

− 0.036+

  

0.021

GDP per capita (log)

− 0.099**

− 0.080**

− 0.082**

0.026

0.026

0.026

Female illiteracy rate

0.004*

0.003

0.003

0.002

0.002

0.002

Provincial health expenditures/GDP (high group as the reference)

0.051**

0.047**

0.048**

0.015

0.015

0.015

Value of equipment per bed (log)

− 0.017+

− 0.012

− 0.013

0.009

0.009

0.008

Number of observations

7 653

7 653

7 653

Adjusted R2 (within group)

0.423

0.427

0.427

  1. HP health professionals, GDP gross domestic product
  2. Numbers in the cells are fixed effects estimators with their standard errors underneath
  3. +p < 0.1; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01
  4. All models include fixed effects for years and intercepts, but these values are not shown in the table