Malaria literacy among people living in Namtu township, Northern Shan state, Myanmar
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Issued Date
2024
Copyright Date
2020
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Language
eng
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
ix, 115 leaves: ill.
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thematic Paper (M.P.H. (Public Health))--Mahidol University, 2020
Suggested Citation
Pyae, Phyo Min, 1990- Malaria literacy among people living in Namtu township, Northern Shan state, Myanmar. Thematic Paper (M.P.H. (Public Health))--Mahidol University, 2020. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/99405
Title
Malaria literacy among people living in Namtu township, Northern Shan state, Myanmar
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Abstract
Namtu township is one of the malaria endemic areas in Myanmar. The context with armed conflict, mobile/migrant people and hard-to-reach villages can lead to malaria outbreak and such conflict can interfere the service of providers and people's accessibility. The cross-sessional study was conducted to explore the level of malaria literacy in Namtu township and its related factors. A total 208 respondents were recruited from 6 villages of the studied township. The data was collected by using face-to-face interview questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used to analyze the data. The age of respondents ranged from 18-83 years old, with mean of 42 years old. Most of the respondents had finished primary and middle school (34.6% and 39.4%) and half of respondents (49.5%) are forest goer. Most of the respondents were Kachin and Shan ethnic groups and average monthly income of the respondent is 126,000 MMK. The result showed that 40.9% of the respondents had high level of malaria literacy in Namtu township. Regarding each component of malaria literacy, 48.6% and 74.5% of respondents had a high level of accessibility and practice about malaria, respectively while only 20.7% and 19.7% of respondents had high level of understanding and appraisal, respectively. The factors that were significantly associated with malaria preventive behaviors were level of education, language, population movement, race/ethnicity and employment (p-value<0.05). Social support and all components of social support were also significantly associated with malaria literacy (p-value<0.001). IMPLICATION OF THE THEMATIC PAPER. From the result of this study, Shan ethnic group is needed to increase the level of malaria literacy and malaria service providers need to disseminate the information related to malaria, diagnosis, treatment and prevention methods in pamphlet or brochure by using Shan dialect and promoting malaria services during religious events. Other than that, forest goer and miner are needed to raise their level of malaria literacy and malaria service providers should give priority to those people.
Description
Public Health (Mahidol University 2020)
Degree Name
Master of Public Health
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Faculty of Public Health
Degree Discipline
Public Health
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University