Publication: Poverty and malaria : A study in a Thai-Myanmar border area
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2001-12-01
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01251562
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Mahidol University
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Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.32, No.3 (2001), 608-614
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Subarn Panvisavas Poverty and malaria : A study in a Thai-Myanmar border area. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.32, No.3 (2001), 608-614. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/26610
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Poverty and malaria : A study in a Thai-Myanmar border area
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An eight-month qualitative study was conducted in 1999 in four villages of Bong Tee subdistrict, Kanchanaburi Province located along the Thai-Myanmar border area using in-depth interviews of key informants and malaria survey as research methodologies. Malaria was a serious problem in 39.6% of the families surveyed in June 1999. The four villages located in a valley covered with forests and small streams which were ideal for malaria epidemic. The structure of the villages has been changed from stable communities to disrupted ones divided along ethnic and class lines. There were 5 ethnic groups dominated by ethnic Karen. Villagers were poor and thus deprived of anti-malaria resources which allow them to remain exposed to malaria.