Country | First-order subnational units (N°) | Ophthalmologists per 105 population | Inequality concentration index | Relative dissimilarity index | Absolute dissimilarity index | ||||||||
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Mean value | 95% CI | Mean value | 95% CI | Mean value (%) | 95% CI | Mean value | 95% CI | ||||||
Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | Lower (%) | Upper (%) | Lower | Upper | ||||||
Argentina | 24 | 5.40 | 5.17 | 5.63 | 0.060 | −0.066 | 0.187 | 9.4 | 8.2 | 10.7 | 203 | 178 | 231 |
Bolivia | 9 | 2.08 | 1.81 | 2.39 | 0.124 | −0.124 | 0.372 | 16.7 | 12.3 | 22.4 | 35 | 26 | 47 |
Brazil | 27 | 8.62 | 8.49 | 8.75 | 0.213 | 0.101 | 0.325* | 17.5 | 16.9 | 18.0 | 3025 | 2928 | 3124 |
Chile | 15 | 3.21 | 2.95 | 3.49 | 0.223 | 0.065 | 0.380* | 21.8 | 18.6 | 25.4 | 123 | 105 | 143 |
Colombia | 33 | 3.40 | 3.24 | 3.57 | 0.375 | 0.301 | 0.450* | 31.2 | 29.0 | 33.5 | 507 | 471 | 544 |
Costa Rica | 7 | 3.12 | 2.61 | 3.69 | 0.457 | 0.175 | 0.739* | 40.3 | 32.4 | 48.8 | 54 | 43 | 65 |
Dominican Republic | 32 | 1.94 | 1.68 | 2.24 | 0.212 | 0.151 | 0.274* | 48.9 | 41.9 | 56.0 | 93 | 80 | 106 |
Ecuador | 23 | 1.23 | 1.05 | 1.42 | 0.412 | 0.371 | 0.452* | 36.7 | 30.0 | 44.0 | 65 | 53 | 78 |
Guatemala | 22 | 1.33 | 1.14 | 1.54 | 0.684 | 0.655 | 0.713* | 60.3 | 53.0 | 67.2 | 108 | 95 | 120 |
Mexico | 32 | 2.68 | 2.58 | 2.77 | 0.310 | 0.233 | 0.387* | 24.6 | 23.1 | 26.2 | 742 | 697 | 789 |
Paraguay | 18 | 3.13 | 2.71 | 3.59 | 0.578 | 0.469 | 0.688* | 45.4 | 38.7 | 52.2 | 93 | 79 | 107 |
Peru | 25 | 3.13 | 2.94 | 3.34 | 0.499 | 0.427 | 0.571* | 38.5 | 35.5 | 41.7 | 368 | 339 | 398 |
Uruguay | 19 | 5.54 | 4.76 | 6.40 | 0.460 | 0.344 | 0.575* | 38.5 | 31.7 | 45.7 | 70 | 58 | 83 |
Venezuela | 24 | 4.24 | 4.02 | 4.47 | 0.016 | −0.107 | 0.139 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 20 | 13 | 31 |
All countries studied | 310 | 5.20 | 5.04 | 5.38 | 0.264 | 0.163 | 0.365* | 22.7 | 20.9 | 24.7 | 5506 | 5165 | 5866 |
*Statistically significant departure from equity (ie, statistically different from zero) at the p<0.05 level.