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Table 1 Health equipment in Brazil

From: Spatially balanced provision of health equipment: a cross-sectional study oriented to the identification of challenges to access promotion

Variable

Number of municipalities1

Mean

Std. dev.

Min.

Max.

Standard supply of the equipment [15]

Bone densitometer

429 (7,71)

3,8

12,27

1

202

1 for each 14,000 inhabitants

Dialysis equipment

385 (6,92)

47,14

114,1

1

1685

1 for each 1500 inhabitants

Hospital beds

3675 (66,05)

126,03

751,95

1

29,562

2.5 to 3 beds for each 1000 inhabitants2

Magnetic resonance imaging

257 (4,62)

4,38

11,46

1

130

1 for each 500,000 inhabitants

  1. 1Percentage of municipalities in parenthesis
  2. 2In this paper, we assume 2.75 hospital beds for each 1000 population