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Table 6 Reasons for not seeking healthcare, stratified by symptoms and groups [%]

From: Coping with ill-health: health care facility, chemist or medicinal plants? Health-seeking behaviour in a Kenyan wetland

 

by symptom

by group

Abdominal complaint (n = 34)

Fever (n = 53)

Skin irritation (n = 19)

Eye condition (n = 26)

Total (n = 561)

Smallholder farmers (n = 39)

Commercial farmers (n = 22)

Pastoralists (n = 48)

Service sector workers (n = 20)

Self-treatment with medicine

32.4

28.3

26.3

7.7

26.1

34

34

13

48

Self-treatment with herbs / milk

35.3

37.7

36.8

23.1

29.1

11

8

67

4

No necessity

23.5

28.3

36.8

42.3

36

47

45

12

47

No money

8.8

5.7

0

23.1

7.5

8

11

5

1

Distance to facility

0

0

0

3.8

1.3

0

2

3

0