Abstract
Epidemiology and Health Behavior on Malaria of Foreign Labour in High risk Area, Ranong Province At the borderland ,a lot of foreigner migrated to work in illegal in frontier country. and they have a poor health.. The most common of the endemic problem in the boarder of Thailand is Malaria and it make a problem to Thais people who live at the boarder of Thailand. This study aimed to compare 1) malaria sick rate 2) rate of malaria carrier 3) health behavior in prevention and curative . The multiple stage stratified method was used to select a representative sample and divided in 3 groups and 200 subjects in each group.: Thais , Thais who habit closed to the foreign labor and pure foreign labor in Kra buri and la-oon district , Ranong Province . Data was collected by interview and focus group discussion. The results were: 60.3 % were male , 40 % worked in a rubber farm, 36.2 % in coffee farm and also 13.7 % in the fruit farm and average age was 3730 years (sd.12.84), 15% of subject got Malaria ,who 2 of 15 were Thais and 5 from 15 were Thais who habit closed to the foreign labor and also 8 of 15 were foreign labor. Comparison of sick rate in 3 groups is not significantly different . Rate of carrier in the foreign labor was 3.5 .Health behavior in prevention and curative were significant different. In addition ,the person who were not good in preventive behavior more risky ( OR = 3.97 C.I. 0.12 – 12540) .the foreign labor were more risky than Thais ( OR = 4.18 , C.I. 0.08-197.43) , age group upper than 45 were more risky than the lower ( OR 2.24 ,C.I. 0.08 –197.43) and area of worked in fruit farm was more risky (OR 2.04 C.I. 0.11 – 39.44)
