Table 2. Self-reported illness among household members, Bangladesh, 2011.
| Illness | No (%) of household members aged (years) |
No. (%) of episodes diagnosed by cliniciana | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 5 (n = 449) | 5–20 (n = 2059) | 20–59 (n = 4 105) | ≥ 60 (n = 589) | Any age (n = 7202) | ||
| Cold/fever | 188 (41.5) | 450 (21.6) | 610 (14.7) | 80 (14.1) | 1328 (18.4) | 342 (24.9) |
| Hypertension | – | – | 393 (9.0) | 156 (26.5) | 549 (7.2) | 509 (92.5) |
| Gastritis/peptic ulcer | 2 (0.4) | 14 (0.7) | 306 (7.4) | 70 (11.9) | 392 (5.4) | 241(61.0) |
| Rheumatic arthritis | 2 (0.6) | 16 (0.8) | 254 (6.1) | 98 (16.8) | 370 (5.1) | 290 (77.3) |
| Diabetes | – | – | 214 (4.9) | 79 (13.0) | 293 (3.8) | 291 (99.5) |
| Heart disease | – | 3 (0.2) | 124 (3.0) | 87 (13.4) | 214 (2.8) | 210 (98.2) |
| Migraine/headache | – | 28 (1.5) | 150 (3.5) | 12 (2.1) | 190 (2.6) | 135 (70.4) |
| Asthma | 4 (0.8) | 26 (1.2) | 87 (2.0) | 37 (6.1) | 154 (2.0) | 139 (90.9) |
| Diarrhoea/gastroenteritis | 25 (5.6) | 27 (1.2) | 78 (2.0) | 10 (1.5) | 140 (2.0) | 66 (47.9) |
| Allergy | 2 (0.4) | 19 (0.9) | 67 (1.6) | 8 (1.4) | 96 (1.3) | 72 (75.5) |
| Injury | – | 11 (0.5)) | 56 (1.5) | 10 (1.7) | 77 (1.1) | 55 (68.2) |
| Skin disease | 3 (0.7) | 20 (1.0) | 45 (1.1) | 6 (1.1) | 74 (1.1) | 54 (74.7) |
| Cataract | 1 (0.1) | 7 (0.3) | 33 (0.8) | 30 (5.0) | 71 (1.0) | 65 (90.6) |
| Dental | 1 (0.1) | 6 (0.2) | 36 (1.0) | 4 (0.6) | 47 (0.6) | 33 (67.1) |
| Nephrolithiasis | – | 3 (0.2) | 25 (0.6) | 5 (1.0) | 33 (0.5) | 33 (100.0) |
| Haemorrhoids | 1 (0.3) | – | 28 (0.7) | 10 (1.6) | 39 (0.5) | 29 (73.5) |
| Urinary tract infection | – | 5 (0.3) | 18 (0.5) | 9 (1.8) | 32 (0.5) | 28 (85.8) |
| Liver disease | 2 (0.6 | 12 (0.4) | 25 (0.6) | 2 (0.4) | 41 (0.5) | 35 (86.5) |
| Otitis media | 3 (0.7) | 3 (0.2) | 16 (0.4) | 2 (0.4) | 24 (0.4) | 19 (82.4) |
| Tumour | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | 23 (0.6) | – | 25 (0.4) | 19 (79.9) |
| Typhoid | 2 (0.6) | 10 (0.6) | 11 (0.3) | 2 (0.3) | 25 (0.4) | 23 (91.5) |
| Mental disease | – | 6 (0.3) | 18 (0.5) | 2 (0.5) | 26 (0.4) | 23 (88.3) |
| Physical weakness | 1 (0.1) | 2 (0.04) | 18 (0.4) | 4 (0.4) | 25 (0.3) | 17 (67.3) |
| Pneumonia | 9 (2.1) | 1 (0.03) | 2 (0.1) | – | 12 (0.2) | 12 (100.0) |
| Paralysis | – | 1 (0.03) | 5 (0.2) | 10 (1.7) | 16 (0.2) | 14 (88.5) |
| Cancer | – | – | 6 (0.2) | 2 (0.4) | 8 (0.1) | 8 (100.0) |
| Food poisoning | – | 1 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) | – | 5 (0.1) | 3 (60.0) |
| Chicken pox | – | 3 (0.1) | 1 (0.03) | – | 4 (0.1) | 2 (66.7) |
| Insomnia | – | – | 7 (0.2) | 6 (0.8) | 13 (0.1) | 9 (70.1) |
| Uterine prolapse | – | – | 5 (0.1) | – | 5 (0.1) | 5 (100.0) |
| Nasal polyps | – | 4 (0.2) | 3 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 8 (0.1) | 7 (94.9) |
| Cholelithiasis/cholecystitis | – | – | 6 (0.2) | 1 (0.2) | 7 (0.1) | 7 (100.0) |
| Tuberculosis | – | – | 4 (0.1) | – | 4 (0.1) | 3 (75.0) |
| Inguinal hernia | – | 1 (0.1) | 5 (0.1) | 3 (0.5) | 9 (0.1) | 9 (100.0) |
| Dengue | – | 1(0.03) | 1 (0.03) | 1 (0.2) | 3 (0.0) | 3 (100.0) |
| Otherb | 6 (1.4) | 19 (0.8) | 57 (1.4) | 18 (3.3) | 102 (1.4) | 84 (82.5) |
| Total | 241 (53.3) | 656 (31.6) | 1958 (46.8) | 436 (73.7) | 3300 (44.9) | 2894 (64.1) |
a Clinicians all had medical degrees.
b Appendicitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, epilepsy, hypercholesterolemia, anaemia, abdominal, foot or hand pain, swelling/oedema, filariasis, hearing or renal problems, osteoporosis, thyroid goitre, vitamin deficiency and helminth infections.