Economic analysis of Malaria control for migrant workers in eastern Thailand

A randomized, double-blind field trial was carried out to compare the economic impact of permethrin-treated nets with that of untreated nets as a method of malaria control. The study was conducted in 261 long-term migrant workers and 138 seasonal agricultural migrant workers in the eastern rural are...

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Published inSoutheast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 216 - 220
Main Authors KAMOLRATANAKUL, P, DHANAMUN, B, PRASITTISUK, C, GRISSO, J. A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bangkok Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network 01.06.1993
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Costs and Cost Analysis
Double-Blind Method
General aspects
Humans
Malaria, Falciparum - economics
Malaria, Falciparum - prevention & control
Medical sciences
Pilot Projects
Planification. Prevention (methods). Intervention. Evaluation
Primary Prevention - economics
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Thailand
Transients and Migrants
Tropical medicine
Thailand
Asia
Human
Protozoa
Protozoal disease
Insecticide
Malaria
Seasonal work
Pesticides
Parasitosis
Infection
Prevention
Impregnation
Plasmodium falciparum
Randomization
Efficiency
Double blind study
Economic aspect
Sporozoa
Bed-net
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Summary:A randomized, double-blind field trial was carried out to compare the economic impact of permethrin-treated nets with that of untreated nets as a method of malaria control. The study was conducted in 261 long-term migrant workers and 138 seasonal agricultural migrant workers in the eastern rural areas known to be highly endemic for multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infection. One hundred and twenty-six longterm migrants and 59 seasonal migrants used treated nets, while 135 and 79, respectively, used untreated nets. The impregnated-nets program was cost-saving as well as offering improved effectiveness. The net benefit of using a treated net was US$1.17 per worker from the Malaria Division's perspective and US$1.61 per worker from the worker viewpoint. The use of impregnated nets with large-scale primary health care programs likely will be the most cost-effective and cost-beneficial method for controlling malaria in eastern Thailand.
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ISSN:0125-1562