Regional inequity in complete antenatal services and public emergency obstetric care is associated with greater burden of maternal deaths: analysis from consecutive district level facility survey of Karnataka, India

Table 4 Association of within state inequities in service coverage (2012–13) with direct cause maternal mortality ratio (2014)

	Unadjusted model		Adjusted model^a
Predictor variable	Estimates	p value	Estimates	p value
Model (R ² = 0.292, p = 0.004)
CANC- TC	-0.45	0.011	-0.432	0.010
C-Section rate - public settings -TC	-0.40	0.031	-0.365	0.027

Estimates are standardized beta values derived from liner regression model. ^a Adjusted for predictors in the model. R² values are adjusted for number of predictors

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