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Table 1 Main explanatory variables for the spatial distribution models for AIDS, homicides and malaria. Beta coefficient and confidence intervals of variables in linear regression models

From: Highways and outposts: economic development and health threats in the central Brazilian Amazon region

  

State of MT

BR-163

highway

Amazon River

Transamazonian

highway

GDP growth

Proportion of urban

population

Proportion of indigenous

population

Proportion of migrants

(10 years)

AIDS

Beta

(Confidence interval)

10.2

(-3,3 - 23,7)

-8.9

(-25,9 - 8,2)

  

1.4

(-2,2 - 5.0)

0.9*

(0.5 - 1.3)

  

Homicides

Beta

(Confidence interval).

22.3*

(3.5 - 41.1)

-13.5

(-35.8 - 8.8)

-43.7*

(-72.4 - -15.0)

    

-1.3*

(-2.2 - -0.4)

Malaria

Beta

(Confidence interval)

-10.5

(-26.8 - 5.8)

  

56.9*

(28.6 - 85.2)

  

2.3*

(0.1 - 4.4)

-0.8

(-1.6 - 0.1)

  1. * significant (p < 0.05)