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Table 4 Infant Mortality Rate: Shortfall Inequality

From: The quest for equity in Latin America: a comparative analysis of the health care reforms in Brazil and Colombia

 

Brazil

Colombia

 

Parameter Estimate

p-value

Adjusted R2

Predictive Chow

Parameter Estimate

p-value

Adjusted R2

Predictive Chow

Bivariate Analyses

        

Time Trend

-1.6861

< .0001

0.9861

0.8711

-0.5812

< .0001

0.9515

0.3601

Reform

-43.0000

0.0012

0.7159

0.8860

-13.2143

0.0215

0.4416

0.9867

Multivariate Analyses

        

1st model

  

0.9847

0.9320

  

0.9654

0.9120

Time Trend

-1.7376

< .0001

  

-0.6653

< .0001

  

plus Reform Years

0.1528

0.6338

  

0.4154

0.0792

  

2nd model

  

0.9894

0.9859

  

0.9606

0.9508

Time Trend

-2.2924

0.0002

  

-0.7879

0.0539

  

plus Reform Years

0.6455

0.1165

  

0.4759

0.1271

  

plus GDP per capita

0.0069

0.0886

  

0.0038

0.7183

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