Routine surveillance data
The primary dataset comprised of annual malaria case counts from 2017 to 2021 for 1243 health facilities in Laos. As 83 health facilities did not have spatial coordinates, the analysis was performed on 1160 geolocated health facility points (health facilities with longitude and latitude). Figure 1 displays the observed malaria cases at health facilities throughout Laos from 2017 to 2021. The number of reported malaria cases had considerably declined in Laos over the five years, from approximately 9300 cases in 2017 to less than 4000 cases in both 2020 and 2021,…
