Table 3.
Places where care was sought for adults with illnesses in Malawi in 2016
| Action taken (n = 1907) | n | % |
| Did not seek health carea | 254 | 13.4 |
| Did nothing, not serious illness |
180 | 9.1 |
| Did nothing, had no money | 74 | 4.3 |
| Sought health care | 1653 | 87.0 |
| (a) Care at health facilityb | 937 | 47.5 |
| Government health facility |
721 | 37.8 |
| Private health facility | 118 | 5.4 |
| CHAM health facility | 42 | 2.4 |
| Local pharmacy | 41 | 1.1 |
| Village clinic | 15 | 0.7 |
| (b) Care not at health facilityc | 716 | 39.6 |
| Grocery | 505 | 27.7 |
| Used medicine in stock at homed |
133 | 7.6 |
| Personally known remedies |
34 | 1.9 |
| Traditional healer | 19 | 1.1 |
| Other | 15 | 0.9 |
| Faith healer | 10 | 0.5 |
a,c
These actions do not constitute healthcare seeking behaviour (HSB).
b
These actions constitute HSB.
d
This refers to the medicines that they had possibly because they may not have completed the previous dosage. These are the drugs the respondents had at home.
CHAM, Christian Health Association of Malawi.