Table 11. The median percentage of caregivers who sought healthcare, by disease and continent1.
Appropriate health facilities | |||||||||||
Government facilities | |||||||||||
All health facilities | All appropriate facilities2 | Gov. Hospital3 | Health centre or clinic | CHW | All gov. facilities | Private facilities | Pharmacy or drug vendor | Trad. healer | Home care | No care | |
Diarrhoea | |||||||||||
Africa [17], [22], [23], [30], [31], [37], [38], [42], [47], [48], [61], [63], [64], [66], [67], [106], [108] | 67.3 (14.9–86.0) | 39.0 (7.3–68.9) | 8.8 (5.3–17.4) | 28.0 (2.0–42.5) | 5.4 (5.0–21.0) | 18.7 (7.3–66.2) | 11.7 (1.0–37.6) | 22.2 (10.5–45.0) | 7.0 (2.2–20.7) | 32.4 (14.0–60.7) ORT: 40.5 (13.4–68.1) | 30.8 (6.0–39.4) |
Asia [17], [21], [28], [29], [39], [41], [49], [55], [60], [62], [65], [70], [99], [105], [107] | 78.7 (32.0–96.0) | 65.0 (25.4–87.0) | 7.1 (2.0–18.0) | 25.1 (0.3–80.0) | - | 32.2 (15.0–85.0) | 29.3 (5.5–68.8) | 10.5 (4.0–55.7) | 3.0 (1.4–5.0) | 19.8 (4.0–68.0) ORT: 34.0 (29.0–46.0) | 20.0 (8.75–21.3) |
Latin America [17], [24], [40] | 40.5 (22.0–59.0) | 46.0 (33.0–59.0) | 8.0 | 10.0 | - | 18.0 | - | - | - | 41.0 ORT: 23.2 | 20.0 |
Pneumonia | |||||||||||
Africa [22], [23], [30], [44], [52], [119]–[121] | 98.0 (62.9–100.0) | 86.0 (27.2–100.0) | 46.0 (19.6–51.5) | 35.6 (20.0–56.3) | 3.1 (2.0–4.2) | 57.0 (35.6–100.0) | 20.0 (6.7–24.0) | 16.6 (2.5–27.6) | 21.4 (3.1–64.4) | - | 0.0 |
Asia [4], [19], [21], [39], [43], [54], [57], [80], [100], [122] | 80.0 (5.3–92.5) | 68.8 (20.9–92.5) | 60.0 | 32.5 (18.0–47.0) | - | 33.5 (20.9–60.0) | 49.0 | - | - | 25.6 (2.8–94.6) | 6.2 (0.9–11.5) |
Latin America [56], [58], [118] | 87.5 (83.5–91.6) | 89.0 (83.5–94.6) | 30.9 | 30.0 | - | 60.9 | 46.6 | 13.4 (11.6–15.2) | 3.3 | 5.5 | 11.0 |
Malaria | |||||||||||
Africa [18], [22], [23], [25]–[27], [33]–[35], [45], [46], [50], [51], [53], [59], [69], [91], [102]–[104], [106], [108]–[117] | 72.1 (6.1–100.0) | 41.6 (6.1–98.4) | 9.1 (1.2–20.0) | 21.0 (5.5–71.0) | 1.3 (0.0–40.2) | 29.5 (10.8–72.3) | 7.25 (1.9–28.6) | 30.8 (1.6–49.7) | 3.5 (1.2–60.0) | 38.7 (4.5–88.0) | 8.1 (0.0–51.7) |
Asia [101] | 81.5 | 81.5 | - | - | 1.2 | 81.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
Latin America | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
The range is shown in brackets if there are two or more data points. The definition of each category of healthcare is stated in the methods. The values do not add up to 100% because of the varying categorisation of healthcare providers in the included studies and because some studies recorded more than one care seeking event.
Appropriate health facilities included all government and trained private health practitioners, but not traditional healers, pharmacies and unqualified medical practitioners.
Abbreviations: Gov = Governmental; CHW = Community Health Worker; Trad. Healer = Traditional Healer; ORT = Oral Rehydration Therapy; - = no data available.