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. 2016 May 10;15:271. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1319-1

Table 1.

Characterization of populations at higher risk for malaria as identified by APMEN country partners

BGD BTN KHM CHN PRK IDN MYS NPL PHL KOR SLB THA VUT VNM
Work
 Forest workers
 Agricultural workers
 Military
 Development project and construction site workers
 Miners
 Students
 Research surveyors
 Other (i.e. monks, civil/government employees)
Mobility and Migration
 Migrant workers
 Mobile populations at country borders
 Local and foreign tourists
 Indigenous nomads
 Other (i.e. nondescript mobile and migrant populations)
Demographics
 Ethnic minorities, indigenous people
 Refugees, internally displaced populations
 Low socioeconomic status poor/homeless
 Geographically remote/isolated
 Time spent in malaria endemic regions
 Pregnant women, infants and children

The categories are not mutually exclusive

Country abbreviations (adopted from the United Nations country abbreviations). BGD Bangladesh, BTN Bhutan, KHM Cambodia, CHN China, PRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, IDN Indonesia, MYS Malaysia, NPL Nepal, PHL Philippines, KOR Republic of Korea, SLB Solomon Islands, THA Thailand, VUT Vanuatu, VNM Vietnam