Evaluating active roles of community health workers in accelerating universal access to health services for malaria in Palawan, the Philippines

Table 1 Trends in the leading causes of morbidity in Palawan from 2005 to 2009

Causes of morbidity	2005			2006			2007			2008			2009
Causes of morbidity	Top 10	Number	Rate^a	Top 10	Number	Rate^a	Top 10	Number	Rate^a	Top 10	Number	Rate^a	Top 10	Number	Rate^a
URTI/ARI	1st	28,011	4303	1st	27,959	4201	1st	19,217	2392	1st	24,030	3457	1st	38,857	4964
Influenza	2nd	17,085	2625	2nd	16,091	2418	2nd	16,266	1477	2nd	16,719	2405	2nd	13,528	1728
Malaria^b	3rd	10,334	1588	3rd	12,640	1899	3rd	10,048	973	5th	5865	844	4th	6558	838
Diarrhea	4th	7038	1081	4th	8932	1342	4th	6617	831	4th	7061	1016	7th	3655	467
Bronchitis	5th	4800	737	5th	7908	1188	6th	4382	521	3rd	8303	1195	6th	3738	477
Hypertension	6th	3317	510	6th	4843	728	7th	3540	502	7th	3000	432	3rd	7335	937
Urinary tract infection	7th	2700	415	7th	2856	429	8th	3417	185	6th	5671	816	5th	4483	573
Pneumonia	8th	2260	347	8th	1470	221	5th	5652	644	8th	2994	431	10th	2471	316
Anemia	9th	1447	222	10th	858	129
Pulmonary tuberculosis	10th	1029	158	9th	949	143	10th	971	127
Skin disease							9th	1261	143
Gastritis										9th	1402	202	9th	2066	264
Accident/wound/injury										10th	1130	163	8th	2834	362

The table was created by the author based on the annual provincial health report of the province of Palawan [15, 16]
Abbreviations: URTI upper respiratory tract infection, ARI acute respiratory infection
^aRate per 100,000 population
^bThe number does not match that in Table 1 due to differences in the methods of data collection (the data for this table was only collected in provincial and private hospitals)