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Table 1 Characteristics of health workers stratified by cadre, age, gender and health facility type.

From: Why don't health workers prescribe ACT? A qualitative study of factors affecting the prescription of artemether-lumefantrine

 

Number

Percentage

Number of respondents

36

 

Number of districts

5

 

Cadre

  

   Clinical Officers

4

11%

   Nurses

32

89%

Age

  

   <25

-

 

   25–34

10

28%

   35–44

12

33%

   45–55

13

36%

   >55

1

3%

Gender

  

   Male

21

58%

   Female

15

42%

Health facility type

  

   District hospital

2

5%

   Health Centre

6

17%

   Dispensary

28

78%