Improving malaria knowledge and practices in rural Myanmar through a village health worker intervention: a cross-sectional study

Malaria Journal

Research

May Sudhinaraset¹  Aung Kyaw San²  Moh Moh Lwin²  Tin Aung² 

[1] Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA;Population Services International/Myanmar, Yangon, Myanmar;

关键词: Social franchise programme;    Rural;    Community health workers;    Malaria;    Intervention;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2875-13-5

 received in 2013-06-04, accepted in 2013-12-29,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSince 2008 the Sun Primary Health (SPH) franchise programme has networked and branded community health workers in rural Myanmar to provide high quality malaria information and treatment. The purpose of this paper is to compare the malaria knowledge level and health practices of individuals in SPH intervention areas to individuals without SPH interventionMethodsThis study uses data from a cross-sectional household survey of 1,040 individuals living in eight rural townships to compare the knowledge level of individuals in SPH intervention areas to individuals without SPH intervention.ResultsThis study found that the presence of a SPH provider in the community is associated with increased malaria knowledge and higher likelihood of going to trained providers for fevers. Furthermore, the study found a dose–response, where the longer the duration of the programme in a community, the greater the community knowledge level.ConclusionThe study suggests that community health workers might have significant impact on malaria-related mortality and morbidity in rural Myanmar.

【 授权许可】

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© Lwin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.