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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

  (1) (2) (3) (4)
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
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