Table 4 Barriers and suggestions of basic health staff and Vector-borne Diseases Control Program staff on targeting malaria elimination in 2020 for six selected townships in rural area in Myanmar, 2017–2018
Barriers and suggestion | N | (%) |
|---|---|---|
Total | 544 | |
Barriers for malaria elimination | ||
Community low knowledge on health | 233 | (43) |
Inadequate supplies | 117 | (22) |
Transportation difficulty | 115 | (21) |
Mobile/migrant (or) conflict affected populations | 98 | (18) |
Financial barrier | 82 | (15) |
Non-compliance to treatment | 72 | (13) |
Not relevant | 67 | (12) |
Lack of stakeholder engagement | 56 | (10) |
Over-burden of basic health staff | 51 | (9) |
Inadequate health education | 43 | (8) |
Inadequate training and refresher training | 24 | (4) |
No barrier | 22 | (4) |
Language barrier | 18 | (3) |
Inadequate preventive and control measures | 15 | (3) |
Others | 12 | (2) |
Suggestion for malaria elimination | ||
Enhance preventive and control measures | 218 | (40) |
Ensure adequate support | 189 | (35) |
Conduct training and refresher training | 145 | (27) |
Increase health education | 114 | (21) |
Strengthen surveillance system | 83 | (15) |
Increase human resource | 56 | (10) |
Improve stakeholder engagement | 43 | (8) |
Improve effective treatment | 29 | (5) |
Not relevant | 23 | (4) |
Improve monitoring and supervision | 7 | (1) |