Effect of skilled and unskilled health workers availability on neonatal mortality in poor and rich areas.

Abstract

<p>Sources: Author’s calculation using the output from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0074772#pone-0074772-t002" target="_blank">Table 2</a>.</p><p>Note: Skilled health workers refers to physicians & nurse professional and unskilled health workers to nurse associate & community health workers. Poor refers to minimum comparable areas (MCA) with more than 50% of population below the poverty line, and non-poor otherwise. The explained reduction by skilled health workers for poor and non-poor areas is the sum of the marginal effects estimated in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0074772#pone-0074772-t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a> for physicians and nurse professionals. Similarly, the explained reduction by unskilled health workers is the sum of the marginal effects for nurse associate and community health worker.</p