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Table 1 Example of diversification of activities in Cambodia

From: In search of the last malaria cases: ethnographic methods for community and private-sector engagement in malaria elimination in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Activities

With

No. of stay

Sleep

Protection

Season

Plantation (around houses)

Family, labourers

NA

House

Bed-net

Rain

Plantation (owned by company)

Family, friends

Weeks– months

Company’s hut

Bed-net, Hammock-net

All

Mountain rice-field

Family

A day

NA

NA

Rain

Collect vegetables

Alone, family, friends

Daytime

NA

NA

All

Cutting woods

Family, friends

2–10 nights

Outside/simple hut

Hammock-net or nothing

All

Gold mining

Family, labourers

A day– months

Months

Hut

Hut

Bed-nets

Bed-nets, Hammock-net or nothing

Rain

Hunting

Alone, friends

A day

Hunt at night

Few nights

NA

NA

Outside

NA

NA

Hammock-net or nothing

All

Fishing mountain stream

Alone, friends

A day

2–3 nights

NA

Simple hut

NA

Hammock-net or nothing

All