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Table 5 Posterior estimates (median and 95% BCI) of the association between health facility readiness and malaria mortality obtained from a Bayesian geostatistical negative binomial model

From: Constructing a malaria-related health service readiness index and assessing its association with child malaria mortality: an analysis of the Burkina Faso 2014 SARA data

 

Medical centres

Peripheral health centres

Readiness index

MRRa (95% BCI)

MRR (95% BCI)

 Low

1.00

1.00

 Middle

0.94 (0.76–1.25)

0.74 (0.54–1.00)

 High

0.81 (0.74–2.51)

0.41 (0.19–0.91)*

Location

 Rural

1.00

1.00

 Urban

0.97 (0.48–1.77)

0.49 (0.31–0.78)*

Administrative status

 Private

1.00

1.00

 Public

1.12 (0.51–2.17)

0.69 (0.46–1.01)

Spatial parameters

 Spatial variance

0.26 (0.14–0.53)

0.46 (0.29–0.67)

 Spatial range (km)

43.3 (13.6–89.9)

26.32 (6.39–83.1)

  1. aMRR Mortality rate ratio
  2. *: Statistically important association