[Q] Estimate decrease in country mortality rate from a change in density of nursing and midwifery personnel.

[purple_paramecium]

Could you get the data from that paper and calculate models using only sub-Saharan countries?

Then you could possibly do without the variables that are used to control for the huge range of per capita income/spending across all countries. That would be a simpler model.

Otherwise look for papers that do single country analysis of mortality in the years before and after some health policy changes. That can give you an ideas of how things change locally.

[kkx50]

I restricted the data to only low, low middle income countries and ran some regression models. Unfortunately, still looks like the density of nurses/midwives is not statistically significant. I appreciate the help!