Cross-sectional study of morbidity, morbidity-associated factors and cost of treatment in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, with implications for health policy in developing countries and development assistance policy

Table 1 Number and characteristics of persons in the households

	Women	Men	Girls	Boys	All persons
Number	476	422	431	448	1777
Number per household:
-mean	2.7	2.4	2.4	2.5	10.0
-median	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	9.0
-range	0–19	0–8	0–8	0–10	2–41
Age (years)
-mean	33.1	32.8	7.3	7.2	20.0
-median	28	30	7	7	15
-range	16–97	16–82	0–15	0–15	0–97
Age group (years)
< 1			31	36	67
1–4			110	111	221
5–9			131	150	281
10–15¹			159	151	310
16–19	90	82			172
20–29	160	114			274
30–39	84	90			174
40–49	45	65			110
50–59	37	34			71
60–69	20	19			39
70+	24	7			31
No information	16	11			27
Schooling, number of women 16–50 years of age (n = 396)²:
9+ years	49 (13%)
5–8 years	110 (29%)
1–4 years	42 (11%)
No schooling	180 (47%)
No information	15
Poverty index
0–1 (low)	236	228	198	215	877
2–3 (high)	240	194	233	233	900
Number of smokers³	9 (2%)	35 (9 %)
Children living with smoking person⁴			81 (19.1%)	91 (20.4%)
Symptoms⁵/referred:
-fever	2	2	12/11	5/5
-weight loss	2	8	7/7	9/9
-coughing	3	9	16/7	18/8
-other	1		4/3	12/6
Referrals	3	10	21	17	51

¹ 15 instead of 14 years of age because of cut-off children-adults ² Percentage calculated on the basis of the 381 women with information about schooling ³ Information lacking for 32 adults; 20 women and 12 men ⁴ Information lacking for 7 children; 6 girls and 1 boy ⁵ Several symptoms possible in each person. In adults, symptoms noted only for referred persons

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