Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR

Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR

In Lao PDR, the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) evaluates bednet coverage, often at the village level, using a coverage target of one net per 2.5 (or fewer) persons in a given population. However, in villages that meet the target, not all households necessarily meet the target or utilize all...

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Main Authors: Nonaka, Daisuke, Pongvongsa, Tiengkham, Nishimoto, Futoshi, Nansounthavong, Phetsomphon, Sato, Yu, Jiang, Hongwei, Takeuchi, Rie, Moji, Kazuhiko, Phongmany, Panom, Kobayashi, Jun
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Published: The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4442776/
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spelling pubmed-44427762015-06-09 Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR Nonaka, Daisuke Pongvongsa, Tiengkham Nishimoto, Futoshi Nansounthavong, Phetsomphon Sato, Yu Jiang, Hongwei Takeuchi, Rie Moji, Kazuhiko Phongmany, Panom Kobayashi, Jun Short Communications In Lao PDR, the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) evaluates bednet coverage, often at the village level, using a coverage target of one net per 2.5 (or fewer) persons in a given population. However, in villages that meet the target, not all households necessarily meet the target or utilize all available bednets. This study explored households that fell short of the target and household utilization of bednets in villages that met the target of bednet coverage set by the NMCP. The person per net ratio (PPNR), which is defined as the population divided by the number of available bednets in a household/village, was used to determine whether a household/village met the NMCP target. Using a household survey, we collected and analyzed the data of 635 households in 17 villages in Xepon district in 2012. Households that fell short of the target (households with a PPNR of > 2.5 or no bednet) existed in every village. The proportion of these households differed greatly among the villages, ranging from 3.4–50%, with some households falling far short. Of the 635 households, 275 (43.5%) had at least one bednet that was not being used on the night preceding the survey and 131 (20.6%) had at least two. In conclusion, in villages that met the NMCP target, a considerable number of households fell short of the target, and the available bednets were not fully utilized in many of the surveyed households. The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine 2015-06 2015-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4442776/ /pubmed/26060422 http://dx.doi.org/10.2149/tmh.2014-37 Text en 2015 Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Nonaka, Daisuke
Pongvongsa, Tiengkham
Nishimoto, Futoshi
Nansounthavong, Phetsomphon
Sato, Yu
Jiang, Hongwei
Takeuchi, Rie
Moji, Kazuhiko
Phongmany, Panom
Kobayashi, Jun
spellingShingle Nonaka, Daisuke
Pongvongsa, Tiengkham
Nishimoto, Futoshi
Nansounthavong, Phetsomphon
Sato, Yu
Jiang, Hongwei
Takeuchi, Rie
Moji, Kazuhiko
Phongmany, Panom
Kobayashi, Jun
Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
author_facet Nonaka, Daisuke
Pongvongsa, Tiengkham
Nishimoto, Futoshi
Nansounthavong, Phetsomphon
Sato, Yu
Jiang, Hongwei
Takeuchi, Rie
Moji, Kazuhiko
Phongmany, Panom
Kobayashi, Jun
author_sort Nonaka, Daisuke
title Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
title_short Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
title_full Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
title_fullStr Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
title_full_unstemmed Households with Insufficient Bednets in a Village with Sufficient Bednets: Evaluation of Household Bednet Coverage Using Bednet Distribution Index in Xepon District, Lao PDR
title_sort households with insufficient bednets in a village with sufficient bednets: evaluation of household bednet coverage using bednet distribution index in xepon district, lao pdr
description In Lao PDR, the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) evaluates bednet coverage, often at the village level, using a coverage target of one net per 2.5 (or fewer) persons in a given population. However, in villages that meet the target, not all households necessarily meet the target or utilize all available bednets. This study explored households that fell short of the target and household utilization of bednets in villages that met the target of bednet coverage set by the NMCP. The person per net ratio (PPNR), which is defined as the population divided by the number of available bednets in a household/village, was used to determine whether a household/village met the NMCP target. Using a household survey, we collected and analyzed the data of 635 households in 17 villages in Xepon district in 2012. Households that fell short of the target (households with a PPNR of > 2.5 or no bednet) existed in every village. The proportion of these households differed greatly among the villages, ranging from 3.4–50%, with some households falling far short. Of the 635 households, 275 (43.5%) had at least one bednet that was not being used on the night preceding the survey and 131 (20.6%) had at least two. In conclusion, in villages that met the NMCP target, a considerable number of households fell short of the target, and the available bednets were not fully utilized in many of the surveyed households.
publisher The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4442776/
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