Forest malaria | Malaria ecosystem and transmission is closely related to forested areas in Southeast Asia |
Related activities of population | Population movement in relation to malaria, the main focus should be on the interaction/exposure of MMP with the forest |
Local population | Permanent resident in the area for more than 1Â year |
Mobile population | Resident in the area for less than 6Â months |
Migrant population | Resident in the area for more than 6Â months and less than 1Â year |
Visitors (from abroad to the country) | Person admitted for short stays for purposes of leisure, recreation, holidays; visits to friends or relatives; business or professional activities. Visitors include excursionists, tourists and business travellers. Tourists, visiting relatives who might spend one or two nights in or near the forest (e.g., family event, ecotourism) |
Seasonal workers | Agricultural activities occurring during planting season (end of dry season) and harvesting season (end of rainy season), usually in foothills/plains/valleys. (e.g., farming/chamkar, rubber, cassava plantations) |
Construction/mine workers | Activities related to infrastructure construction or mining in forested areas, usually in upland forest/hills/valleys. (e.g., dam or road construction, gold or gem mines) |
Forest workers | Activities in heavily forested and remote areas in small mobile groups, usually in upland forest/hills. (e.g., forest products gathering, hunting, logging, fishing) |
Security personnel | Activities related to patrolling in forested border areas |