Traditional practitioners Pengobatan Tradisional (Battra( are becoming parts of health care services, and are used to overcome certain health problems in rural areas as well as in urban. However, there is not enough nation wide data of how wide data of how wide are traditional practices being utilized by the population. Further analysis using the nationwide Riskesdas-2007 data is conducted to d…
Most of the disease burden in developmening countries is related to the consequences of poverty, such as poor nutrition, indoor air pollution and lack of access to proper sanitation and health education. This article explains the correlation of infectius disease and poverty in Indonesia. We analyzed the social economic data obtained from BPS (control Bureau of Statistics) 2007 and communicable …
Drug-drug interactions can initiate undesirable or adverse effects. This could have a clinical implication and could also become serious health problems. Since a large number of drugs are introduced and marketed every year, new interactions between concomitant medications might possibly increase. The safety profile of drugs including the impacts of drug-drug interactions can be provided …
The use of traditional and herbal medicine as well as health food supplements are increasing since “back to nature” became a life style in many countries including in Indonesia. Traditional medicine is often claimed as safe and does not have any adverse effects although it is documented that many medicinal plants have the intrinsic potential of being toxic, possible interaction with each ot…