Table 4 |
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First source of treatment by intervention area (n) |
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First source of treatment |
Intervention area % |
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None n = 317 |
Outreach n = 76 |
VMW n = 17 |
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Village vendor |
54% |
63% |
12% |
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Public health facility |
6% |
4% |
0 |
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Went to private practitioner |
24% |
7% |
6% |
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Private practitioner came to home |
6% |
1% |
0 |
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VMW |
1% |
0 |
71% |
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Outreach |
0.5% |
17% |
6% |
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Traditional healer1 |
3% |
0 |
0 |
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Other2 |
6% |
8% |
6% |
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1The number of "Traditional" treatments is probably underestimated. Patients often use local remedies early on in an illness, at the same time as modern medicines. These included local plants, rubbing with coins or cupping. 2"Other" included the military, de-mining organisations and forest rangers. |
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Yeung et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:96 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-96 |
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