[The role of village doctors and their influence factors in malaria control]

To consolidate the acquired achievements of malaria control and to work out an effective programme for training the village doctors in Yibin District.

A stratified sampling was done at random with sampling 27 village medical stations and 67 village doctors from 9 townships of 3 counties. A questionnaire concerning malaria control knowledge of the village doctors and the quality of their carrying out antimalaria measures was used in this study.

The accuracy rate of answering the questionnaire among the village doctors was 79.3%, being higher in the village doctors receiving antimalaria training than in those not receiving antimalaria training. 82.5% of the doctors could correctly complete the tasks of controlling malaria. In addition, the quality of malaria control implementing in areas where the doctors and their stations had timely got investment funds, preferential policy, system of reward and subsidy from local governments, was superior to those areas where the doctors and their stations had not received those on time. 91.9% of the trained doctors completed the tasks of controlling malaria better than untrained ones.

Greater efforts should be made to give a systematic training to village doctors on the knowledge and technique of malaria control, and to strengthen management and support in order to help these doctors accomplishing the tasks of malaria control better.