Some features of shifting cultivation and sleep in terrace field influenced on the malaria morbidity in community in the central highland
- Author:
Phong Chinh Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
malaria
- MeSH:
Malaria;
epidemiology
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):52-54
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
An investigation aimed to identify the risk factors of malaria in the custom of shifting cultivation and sleep in the terrace field. The results have shown that the custom of sleeping in the terrace field increased the malaria morbidity and influenced the malaria control. The risk of malaria morbidity in the people sleeping in the terrace field was higher 3,8 times than this in the people without sleeping in the terrace field and there was an increase of 4,3 times if sleeping in the terrace without mosquito net
