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Table 5 Health workers, equipment, and drug availability, and service indices

From: The capacity of primary health care facilities in Saudi Arabia: infrastructure, services, drug availability, and human resources

 

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VARIABLES

Drug Availability Index

Total Number of Radiology Machines

Number of Health Workers

Service Availability Index

Makkah

2.473*** (0.319)

0.133*** (0.0457)

3.154* (1.689)

3.361*** (0.250)

Almadinah

5.282*** (0.336)

0.170*** (0.0591)

0.199 (1.105)

0.387 (0.305)

Eastern Region

3.022*** (0.413)

0.0235 (0.0491)

2.667** (1.090)

1.351*** (0.275)

Alqaseem

4.158***

−0.0663

−4.268***

−0.466

(0.380)

(0.0509)

(0.922)

(0.315)

Aseer

4.233*** (0.289)

0.0965* (0.0560)

−2.143*** (0.753)

3.020*** (0.237)

Najran

4.937*** (0.617)

0.231** (0.106)

0.0981 (2.073)

0.197 (0.307)

Tabouk

4.396*** (0.395)

−0.000191 (0.0526)

2.415* (1.280)

−0.607 (0.427)

Northern Borders

4.284*** (0.604)

0.319** (0.127)

−1.357 (1.515)

0.00702 (0.363)

Jazan

2.062*** (0.435)

0.214*** (0.0805)

−2.854** (1.139)

1.887*** (0.331)

Aljouf

4.351*** (0.356)

0.404*** (0.133)

1.870 (1.592)

−0.195 (0.346)

Albaha

5.558*** (0.328)

0.218*** (0.0777)

−2.933*** (0.885)

4.531*** (0.329)

Hail

4.586*** (0.389)

0.351*** (0.0765)

2.521** (1.005)

−0.0258 (0.279)

Urban

1.060*** (0.209)

0.243*** (0.0370)

9.813*** (0.972)

1.151*** (0.165)

MOD

−1.008 (2.534)

−0.264*** (0.0719)

8.219 (12.33)

0.132 (0.893)

MOI

2.393*** (0.763)

0.466 (0.370)

2.786 (4.075)

−1.065 (1.108)

NGHA

−0.208 (1.789)

0.463 (0.319)

9.621* (5.154)

1.854 (1.432)

Accreditation

−1.531*** (0.224)

0.157*** (0.0431)

3.716*** (1.073)

−0.504*** (0.169)

Radial Distance of coverage (km)

−0.00156 (0.00214)

0.00120*** (0.000367)

0.0138* (0.00796)

0.00320** (0.00155)

Current number of active medical records

  

0.000463*** (0.000100)

 

Distance to the closest hospital (km)

0.00595** (0.00260)

−0.00100*** (0.000342)

−0.0299*** (0.00762)

0.00716*** (0.00215)

Working 24 × 7

1.350*** (0.218)

−0.150*** (0.0459)

− 0.584 (0.939)

−2.598*** (0.206)

Constant

22.56*** (0.297)

0.0126 (0.0361)

7.805*** (0.856)

5.113*** (0.207)

Observations

1767

1778

1662

1778

R2

0.300

0.106

0.307

0.340

  1. Note: MOD Ministry of Defense, MOI Ministry of Interior, NGHA National Guard Health Affairs Standard errors in parentheses
  2. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1