Piercing the veil on the functioning and effectiveness of district health system governance structures: perspectives from a South African province

Table 3 Predictors of functioning scores

Characteristic	Co-efficient	95% CI	Adjusted p-value
Age	0.09	− 0.13 to 0.31	0.45
Gender
Female	Ref		0.17
Male	0.08	− 0.23 to 0.41
Governance structure
DHC	Ref		0.33
DHCTC	− 0.094	− 0.47 to 0.28
District
Ekurhuleni	Ref
Johannesburg	0.49	− 0.01 to 0.98
Tshwane	0.33	− 0.15 to 0.82	0.05
West Rand	0.70	0.09 to 1.30
Sedibeng	0.73	0.19 to 1.28
Portfolio
Chairperson	Ref		0.30
Politician	− 0.54	− 1.26 to 0.17
Ex-officio member	− 0.29	− 0.78 to 0.19
Membership time	0.05	− 0.03 to 0.04	0.78

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