Equity and efficiency of medical service systems at the provincial level of China’s mainland: a comparative study from 2009 to 2014

Table 1 Regression analysis on the determinants of efficiency

Variables	Non-standardized coefficients		β	t	P values	95% CI
Variables	B	SD	β	t	P values	Lower	Upper
X₁ Proportion of the urban population (%)	− 0.001	0.003	− 0.088	− 0.393	0.695	− 0.007	0.004
X₂ Proportion of population aged 0–14 and 65 and over (%)	0.019	0.004	0.379	4.760	0.000^¶	0.011	0.026
X₃ Proportion of the illiterate among aged 15 and over (%)	0.009	0.002	0.305	4.255	0.000^¶	0.005	0.013
X₄ Per capita GDP (thousand, CNY)	0.007	0.001	0.777	7.323	0.000^¶	0.005	0.009
X₅ The level of per capita health expenditures (%)	0.015	0.011	0.123	1.353	0.178	− 0.007	0.036
X₆ Proportion of people covered with urban health insurance schemes (%)	0.001	0.001	0.041	0.620	0.536	− 0.001	0.003
X₇ Proportion of tertiary hospitals out of total hospitals (‰)	− 0.021	0.010	− 0.213	−1.978	0.049^*	− 0.041	0.000
X₈ Proportion of profit hospitals out of total hospitals (%)	− 0.001	0.001	− 0.005	− 0.067	0.947	− 0.003	0.001
X₉ Proportion of primary medical personnel (%)	0.012	0.003	0.516	4.748	0.000^¶	0.007	0.017
X₁₀ Proportion of the medical services in primary medical facilities (%)	0.004	0.002	0.257	2.398	0.018^*	0	0.008

The value of α (the constant item) was not presented in this table because each DMU had a unique constant value in the regression model. ^¶P < 0.001, *P < 0.05

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