Table 6

CHC Characteristics Associated With Above-Median Employment of Physicians

Characteristic	Coefficient (95% CI)	P Value
Structure of CHC
Size of catchment area (per 10,000-person increment)	0.00 (0.00 to 0.01)	.19
Origin of CHC
Private enterprise	−1.84 (−3.60 to −0.08)	.04^a
Daily staff composition (per 1–staff member increment)
Specialists	0.51 (0.18 to 0.83)	.002^a
Nurses	0.24 (0.11 to 0.37)	<.001^a
Services available
Number of services^b	1.04 (0.25 to 1.83)	.01^a

CHC = community health center.
Note: The median number of physicians the CHCs employed was 7.
↵a P <.05 by multivariate logistic regression analysis.
↵b Out of 7 possible services: traditional Chinese medicine, sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and management, drug dispensing, family planning/reproductive health, maternal and infant care services, vaccination services, and mental health care.