A case-control study was done in Indramayu, West Java, about the association between housing characteristics, indoor air pollution and childhood Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI)-pneumonia. Using the Respirable Suspended Particulate (RSP), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (SO), formaldehyde (HCHO) and amonia (NH3) as determinants of indoor air pollutants, mites as …
Nowadays eye defect caused by accident or job is increasing paralel with the speedy development of industries. There are many eye sight abnormalities that cause visual deficiency beside other eye diseases, as the result of job. In the eye Department, General Hospital, Medical Faculty Christian University of Indonesia, the case of strange thing found in cornea becomes very often to be found. Vis…
Following the WHO-MONICA protocol, in 1988 a community survey of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has been done in 3 sub-districts of metropolitan Jakarta, after 5 years intervention in the form of health education in CHD-risk factors control, a second survey has been completed in 1993. Comparison of results of the first and the second surveys. nl. prevalence of hipertension (14.9 percent vs 49.6 p…