The role of village malaria workers as village surveillance agents in Bekasi Regency, Indonesia.

In Bekasi Regency, village malaria workers were used to be village surveillance agents (VSAs) who have additional duties in several other diseases surveillance, and births and deaths registration. As consequence, VSAs have different working method from malaria workers. Epidemiological approach especially intervention study was used in effort to examine the different effectiveness on malaria surveillance between the working method of VSAs and of village malaria workers, but its result is inconclusive. This information was used for decision making procedure of using VSA's working method continuously.