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

Table 4 Predictors of effectiveness

Characteristic	Co-efficient	95% CI	Adjusted p-value
Age	0.11	− 0.08 to 0.32	0.24
Gender
Male	Ref		0.20
Female	0.19	− 0.11 to 0.48
Governance structure
DHC	Ref		0.53
DHCTC	− 0.12	− 0.49 to 0.26
District
Ekurhuleni	Ref
Johannesburg	0.64	0.19–1.18	0.005*
Tshwane	0.18	− 0.26 to 0.63
West Rand	0.85	0.29 to 1.41
Sedibeng	0.66	0.12 to 1.10
Portfolio
Chairperson	Ref
Politician	− 0.28	− 0.93 to 0.37	0.61
Ex-officio member	− 0.03	− 0.47 to 0.42
Membership time	− 0.01	− 0.04 to 0.03	0.79

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