Table 1. Studies retrieved from literature search.
Illness category | Total number of articles retrieved | Selected for fulltext review | Included in the review1 | With data on recognitionof illness | With data on care seeking for illness |
Diarrhoea | 16,637 | 122 | 38 | 6 | 33 |
Malaria | 11,867 | 317 | 35 | 5 | 32 |
Pneumonia | 23,542 | 96 | 27 | 7 | 21 |
Total | 912 | 18 | 772 |
This number includes studies found through searching the references of already included studies.
Five studies examined two diseases, two studies examined all three diseases and three studies contained data on both recognition of disease and care seeking.