The Correlation between Gender Inequalities and Their Health Related Factors in World Countries: A Global Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Correlation between gender inequality index and related variables by WHO regions.

	Africa	America	Eastern Mediterranean	Europe	South East Asia	Western Pacific	Total
Income	−0.80 −0.91, −0.60	−0.80 −0.92, −0.54	−0.31 −0.72, 0.27	−0.77 [−0.87, −0.60	−0.84 −0.98, −0.24	−0.79 −0.93, −0.44	−0.73 −0.81, −0.63
Life expectancy at birth	−0.66 −0.83, −0.36	−0.65 −0.86, −0.26	−0.61 −0.86, −0.11	−0.76 [−0.87, −0.59	−0.94 −0.99, −0.64	−0.95 −0.99, −0.86	−0.79 −0.85, −0.71
Education	−0.69 −0.85, −0.41	−0.80 −0.92, −0.52	−0.48 −0.81, 0.07	−0.48 [−0.69, −0.19	−0.76 −0.96, −0.02	−0.77 −0.92, −0.41	−0.83 −0.88, −0.76
NCD mortality	0.09 −0.31, 0.46	0.03 −0.44, 0.49	0.60 0.10, 0.86	0.71 [0.51, 0.84	0.34 −0.55, 0.87	0.86 0.60, 0.95	0.53 0.40, 0.65
Smoking	−0.06 −0.44, 0.34	−0.20 −0.61, 0.29	−0.49 −0.81, 0.05	0.15 [−0.18, 0.44	0.24 −0.63, 0.84	0.46 −0.10, 0.80	−0.44 −0.58, −0.29
Hypertension	0.02 −0.41, 0.45	−0.27 −0.63, 0.18	−0.31 −0.77, 0.35	0.04 [−0.31, 0.37	−0.45 −0.98, 0.90	−0.39 −0.76, 0.18	−0.26 −0.42, −0.09
BMI > 25	−0.56 −0.78, −0.22	−0.34 −0.70, 0.15	−0.46 −0.80, 0.09	0.09 [−0.23, 0.39	−0.94 −0.99, −0.62	−0.14 −0.63, 0.42	−0.34 −0.50, −0.17
Cancers death rate	0.00 −0.39, 0.39	−0.51 −0.79, −0.06	−0.14 −0.62, 0.43	0.11 [−0.21, 0.41	−0.60 −0.93, 0.28	−0.12 −0.61, 0.44	−0.53 −0.65, −0.39
Alcohol	−0.17 −0.52, 0.24	−0.38 −0.72, 0.11	−0.29 −0.71, 0.28	−0.07 [−0.38, 0.25	−0.12 −0.80, 0.69	−0.42 −0.78, 0.15	−0.54 −0.66, −0.40

Data are presented as the value in Pearson’s correlation test and 95% confidence interval.