Table 2

Mean time loss (workday equivalents) from treatment-seeking per malaria episode

Health facility (% of trial population attendance)
Travel*
Treatment*
Proportion of actual (non-trial) visits **

Village Health Worker (1.6%)
0.02
0.03
60%
Community Health Centre (100%)
0.03
0.16
38%
Secondary treatment – hospital, private clinic, dispensary (3.2%)
0.05
0.77
2%
Mean workday equivalents lost per episode under non-trial conditions
0.14

*Data from survey of patients attending CHC

** Data from large passive case detection study [8]

Morel et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:166   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-166