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Comparison of the average and ward-specific unit cost per bed day to the unit cost per outpatient visit across the study hospitals.

<p>N = 41.</p

Results of the seemingly unrelated regression using iterated feasible generalized least squares estimates.

<p>Observations = 41.</p

Variable names, description and mean values.

1<p>See <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0097874#pone.0097874.e015" target="_blank">Equation 3(a)</a> to <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0097874#pone.0097874.e019" target="_blank">3(e)</a>.</p

Model estimates of ward-specific costs per bed-day in 2000 Chinese yuan (CY) excluding Henan Province (USinparenthesis: in parenthesis: 1 = 8.3CY).

<p>Observations = 24.</p><p>Abbreviations: uc = unit cost per bed-day, g = Ob/Gyn, m = internal medicine, s = surgery, p = pediatric, opv = outpatient visit.</p

Ratio of ward-specific unit cost per bed-day to the unit cost per outpatient visit.

<p>Observations = 41.</p><p>Abbreviations: ratio_go = ratio of unit cost of Ob/Gyn to outpatient ward, mo = Internal medicine to outpatient, so = surgery to outpatient, po = pediatric to outpatient.</p

Relationship between both Log (U5MR) and Log (MMR) and Log (GDP per capita).

<p>The well-known Preston relationship is clearly visible, with correlation coefficients of between -.8 and -.9. A line of best fit curve is added showing a similar slope for both years, as well as a shift rightward and downward in 2010 compared to 1990. There are 170, 179, 162, 173 countries shown respectively (A-D).</p

Contribution of changes in the levels of determinates of health (health interventions, social and environmental determinants) to reductions in U5MR, 1990–2010 (A).

<p>Out of 768 models run, the contribution of factor level changes averaged 89%. Of these, half included a variable for fertility (Log of TFR lagged 5 years), and half did not out of concern for endogeneity. The decomposition to the right shows how these improvements averaged a breakdown by indicator. Details of this latter composition are shown in Table A in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0144908#pone.0144908.s001" target="_blank">S1 Appendix</a>. For uncertainty ranges around each estimate see Figure B in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0144908#pone.0144908.s001" target="_blank">S1 Appendix</a>.</p

Defining research to improve health systems.

<p>*How amenable the research outputs are to adaptation, scaling up or use or in other contexts or locations.</p

Examples of research questions for the three research domains.

<p>*As noted above, depending on how the question is phrased and the research is designed; some of these questions can be addressed in several research domains.</p