International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 4 Malaria symptoms that the insured and uninsured patients were asked about by providers

From: Quality of uncomplicated malaria case management in Ghana among insured and uninsured patients

Malaria symptoms	Insured	Uninsured
Malaria symptoms	N = 483 (%)	N = 40 (%)
Hot body/fever	82	88
Weakness	53	58
Cough	62	55
Vomiting	58	65
Convulsion	6	5
Joint pains	35	30
Nausea	21	23
Chills and shivering	41	48
Yellowish eye ball	40	35
Catarrh	21	25
Diarrhoea	50	50
Headache	58	58
Loss of appetite	36*	53*
Bitter taste	23	28
Yellowish urine	8*	20*

p- Chi-square test.
* Significant at 5%.
Source: Patient exit data January to April, 2011.

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