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Table 2 Impact of physician density level on targeted outcomes, 208 countries and territories, 2004–2014, unadjusted and adjusted mixed effect models results

From: Analysis of the association between millennium development goals 4 & 5 and the physician workforce across international economic strata

Outcome variable	Poisson regression
	Unadjusted		Adjusted^a
	Relative risk (p-value)	Confidence interval	Relative risk (p-value)	Confidence interval
MMR Un-Vaccination Rate	0.691 (<0.0001)	0.625–0.764	0.875 (0.1729)	0.723–1.059
DTaP Un-Vaccination Rate	0.713 (<0.0001)	0.644–0.789	0.905 (0.2955)	0.751–1.091
Neonatal Mortality Rate	0.655 (<0.0001)	0.611–0.703	0.814 (<0.0001)	0.756–0.876
Under-5 Mortality Rate	0.597 (<0.0001)	0.551–0.647	0.762 (<0.0001)	0.701–0.829
Maternal Mortality Rate	0.813 (<0.0001)	0.786–0.840	0.813 (<0.0001)	0.786–0.840

^aThe confounding effects of country income level, female literacy rate, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and percent urban population were adjusted

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