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

Table 3 The population distribution and malaria incidence per region (2009)

Region	Population	Smear	Confirmed malaria cases	P. falciparum	<5^a (%)	ABER	SPR	API
Total	872,390	89,290	7606	73.1 %	17.3	10.3	8.52	8.72
Northern region	334,392	23,626	488	66.0 %	11.1	7.07	2.07	1.46
Puerto Princesa City	207,119	8776	880	63.5 %	8.4	4.24	10.0	4.25
Southern region	330,879	56,888	6238	75.0 %	19.0	17.2	11.0	18.9

Abbreviations: ABER annual blood examination rate, SPR slide positivity rate, API annual parasite index
^aThe percentage of malaria patients who were younger than 5 years of age