Community participation for malaria elimination in tafea province, vanuatu: part ii. social and cultural aspects of treatment-seeking behaviour

Table 2 Distinguishing malarial fever from other fever by presentation of symptoms- summary of community responses in Tanna Island, 2009

	All Other Fever	Fever due to cold and flu	Fever due to 'sik blong mosquito'
	Fever outside or inside the body	Typically fever inside the body	Fever inside the body
	Patient feels hot	Patient feels hot	Patient feels hot and cold*
	Loss of appetite	Loss of appetite	Loss of appetite
	Dizzy	Dizzy	Dizzy
Symptom Signifiers	Weak	Weak	Weak
	Dehydration possible	Dehydration possible	dehydration
	Cough	Cough	Cough
	Fever may be only symptom	Fever always with other symptoms	Fever always with other symptoms
	Sometimes head ache	Sometimes headache	Always Head ache*
	Sometimes body pain	Sometimes body pain	Always Body ache*
	Symptoms rarely last for long time	Symptoms sometimes last for long time	Symptoms always lasting 24 hours or more*
	Sometimes severe symptoms	Sometime severe symptoms	Always Severely presenting symptoms*