Randomised primary health center based interventions to improve the diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated fever and dengue in Vietnam

Table 1 Characteristics of the 12 communities in a randomized primary health centers based intervention study in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam.

	Binh Thuan Province	PHC intervention groups
		Training	RDTs	Training + RDTs	Control
Administrative data
No. Communities in 2001	124	3	3	3	3
No. households	-	5725	5428	6457	6064
Population	1089328	29037	29700	33511	28332
Per capita income (US $)	298
Health service data 2001/2006*
Total no. registered health providers	1897/2452	30/37	17/19	18/17	16/17
Medical doctors (per 10000 population)	483 (4)/579 (5)	8 (3)/9 (3)	4 (1)/4 (1)	3 (1)/4 (2)	2 (1)/4 (2)
Assistant doctors	927/1068	17/17	8/8	13/12	8/7
Nurses/midwifes/technicians	487/805	5/11	5/7	2/1	6/6
No. PHC with FBC capacity	NA	2/2	1/3	1/3	1/1
No. Malaria patients	6600/448	152/34	242/18	177/5	458/8

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