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Table 1 Population and number of Health Animators trained

From: Malaria control in rural Malawi: implementing peer health education for behaviour change

Item

Focal area

A

B

C

All

Population size (2014)

4131

8444

11,578

24,153

Number of villages

21

11

30

62

Number of households

857

2139

2400

5396

Persons per household

4.8

3.9

4.8

4.5

Number of Health Animators (% female)

23 (48%)

24 (33%)

30 (40%)

77 (40%)

Households per Health Animator

37.2

89.1

80

70.1

Number of community workshop sites*

21

12

21

54

Population per community workshop site**

197

704

551

447

  1. *Some community workshop sites combined more than one village; in one instance, a village hosted two sites; **This is the average expected number of people per workshop and is derived from dividing population size by the number of workshop sites