Table 2. Health-care-seeking patterns among household members with influenza-like illness (ILI), by sex, age and shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, Bangladesh, 2008.
| Population | Household members |
Source of care among those who sought care for ILI in past 2 months |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) total enrolled | No. (%) with ILI in past 7 daysa | No. (%) who sought care for ILI in past 2 weeks | No. (%) licensed physicians | No. (%) traditional healers, homeopath, unlicensed provider | No. (%) pharmacies | No. (%) sentinel hospital | No. (%) other hospital | ||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Female | 9465 (53) | 1238 (13) | 1757 (19) | 360 (21) | 690 (39) | 506 (29) | 54 (3) | 175 (10) | |
| Male | 8480 (47) | 1197 (14) | 1837 (22) | 372 (20) | 696 (38) | 560 (30) | 58 (3) | 145 (8) | |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| 0–4 | 2066 (12) | 486 (23) | 748 (36) | 200 (27) | 314 (42) | 151 (20) | 18 (2) | 85 (11) | |
| 5–19 | 6078 (34) | 646 (11) | 1131 (19) | 191 (17) | 469 (42) | 379 (41) | 27 (2) | 69 (6) | |
| 20–49 | 7164 (40) | 842 (12) | 1162 (16) | 235 (20) | 396 (34) | 366 (32) | 43 (4) | 128 (11) | |
| 50–64 | 1686 (9) | 294 (17) | 352 (21) | 62 (18) | 129 (37) | 110 (31) | 16 (5) | 26 (7) | |
| 65+ | 951 (5) | 168 (18) | 201 (21) | 44 (22) | 78 (39) | 60 (30) | 8 (4) | 12 (6) | |
| Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing | 651 (3) | 392 (2) | 651 (100) | 186 (29) | 252 (39) | 118 (18) | 38 (6) | 92 (14) | |
a Pearson’s χ2 test yielded a P < 0.001 when the proportions of patients who developed ILI in hospitals with and without electricity were compared.