Table 5 Matrix of factors reported by papers to attract care seekers to different provider types: Supplies and services seen as good or recommended
| Provider type |
Community health workers
(n = 3) |
Drug shop/pharmacy
(n = 10) |
Traditional healer
(n = 1) |
Private health centre/facility
(n = 8) |
Public health centre/facility
(n = 13) |
Hospital
(n = 11) |
Provider type not specified
(n = 10) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attracting factor | |||||||
| Provider supplies (mostly drugs) and facilities are good (n = 28) | 'Drug availability' Ethiopia [95] | Tanzania[91] | 'Drug availability' Kenya[35]Ethiopia[13] | 'Drug availability' Zambia[60]Uganda [102] | 'Drug availability' Zambia[93, 78]Uganda[41], Nigeria [25] | 'Availability of drugs' Nigeria [20, 48]Uganda[46], Ghana[21] | |
| 'Staff availability' Nigeria & Ghana & Uganda & Kenya[55], Nigeria[57] | 'Drug availability' Nigeria [28, 26]Tanzania[53, 101] Uganda [32], [102, 18]Ethiopia[13] | 'Well equipped' Kenya[49, 38]Tanzania[34] Uganda [16] |
'Drips available' Tanzania[101] | ||||
|
'Wide range of drugs' Tanzania[101] Malawi[24] | 'Ward for in-patients' Tanzania [47] |
'Diagnostic facilities' Zambia[93] Tanzania[101] | |||||
| 'Presence of laboratory' Tanzania [47] | 'Staff availability' Zambia[93] | ||||||
| 'Medical staff' Kenya [38] | |||||||
| Better 'quality of services' (as a general statement) (n = 15) | Uganda[18] | Uganda[32] | Kenya[14], Ethiopia[10], Uganda[41], Ghana [21] | Ethiopia [39] Nigeria [62] | Uganda[41], Nigeria [62] | Kenya[50, 49], Tanzania [47], Nigeria [20, 48], Mozambique[51], Ghana [21] | |
| 'Have better quality control and regulation of services' Nigeria [66] | |||||||
| Provider recommended by another provider (n = 11) | Tanzania[91, 83] | Uganda[12, 103, 17] |
Tanzania [69, 104, 34, 75] Uganda [103], |
'Health facilities ' Tanzania [105] Burkina Faso[33] |