The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Correlates of physician migration from African countries

Variable	Total number of African physician émigrés	p value	Emigration fraction	p value	Physician migration density	p value
Health-workforce
Current physician density	0.353	0.010	-0.352	0.010	0.694	<0.001
Current nurse density	0.222	0.111	-0.173	0.216	0.601	<0.001
Medical school density	-0.086	0.609	-0.106	0.527	0.401	0.011
Health status
Infant mortality rate	-0.213	0.125	0.152	0.279	-0.654	<0.001
Under-five mortality rate	-0.247	0.074	0.136	0.333	-0.676	<0.001
Healthy life expectancy at birth	0.285	0.039	-0.127	0.366	0.632	<0.001
Health system spending
Total health spending	0.189	0.180	-0.072	0.612	0.583	<0.001
Share of health spending from external resources	-0.461	0.001	0.289	0.038	-0.385	0.005
Economic and social development
Gross national income per capita	0.140	0.352	-0.144	0.338	0.534	<0.001
Poverty	-0.477	0.006	0.244	0.178	-0.472	0.006
Female literacy	0.298	0.047	0.280	0.062	0.576	<0.001
Human development index	0.180	0.207	0.063	0.663	0.703	<0.001

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