The difference between the needs and the demands of the ommunity in urban, villages, islands and isolated areas had caused the difference approach towards health facilities. To fulfil the demands, Pondok Bersalin Desa (Polindes), or village delivery house, as a model which goal was to ease the access to delivery care and to solve the mortality problems, the Polindes utilisation was need to be a…
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common opportunistic infection and cause of death in patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in developing countries. TB-HIV cases showed an increase in recent years. There has been no report on TB-HIV patient profiles in RSCM. The purpose of this study was to obtain data an demographic, clinical, laboratory, and radiological TB-HIV patients. This stud…
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the world is expected to further increase in recent times, due to changes in lifestyle of the people, but not much data about metabolic syndrome in Indonesia and Papua. Research was needed to complete the database. The aim of this study was to identity the proportion of the metabolic syndrome in Jayapura. A descriptive and cross sectional study was in…
Acne vulgaris is a common human skin disease and commonly was treatment by antiacne formula with antibiotics substances as active compounds. As alternative formula for treatment acne vulgaris and dicrease of antibiotics resistance effect, the new formula antiacne with chitosan/Garcinia mangostana-Centella asiatica extracts nanoparticles as active compound has been developed. For the evaluation…
Pain is a multidimentional experience, generally most of chronic disease followed by pain incidence. Chronic pain can be caused by inflammation or neuropathic condition and change the imbalance of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 2B (NR2B) subunit. This research was an observation of the influence of gabapentin and baclofen to dorsal horn histology in inflammatory-induced chronic pain. Fourty …
Diphtheriae is an reemerging infectious disease widespread in the world. Bacterial infection of Corynebacterium diphtheria usually not invasive, but the bacteria can produce toxins that cause pathological effects on the heart muscle and other organs, and a 10-17% death-risk was occurred. Diphtheriae can be prevented by immunization. Immunizations are given to infants at the age of 0-11 mon…
Utilization of health insurance for delivery service and antenatal care in the health workers is still low. This study aimed to identify determinants of delivery insurace (Jampersal) utilization in Pandeglang. This cross-sectional study was conducted in April 2012. Subject consisted of 250 pregnant women or during postnatal period which is randomly selected from 10 health centers in Pandeg…
Dengue virus infects 50 to 100 million people every year, however, specific treatment or effective antiviral drugs to treat viral infections has not been found yet. Curcumin known has perform the inhibition of ubiquitin-proteasome system that causes a decrease of Japanese encephalitis, one kind of flavivirus. Structural modifications was known to increase the biological activity of curcumin. P…
Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality in risk populations such as infants, children, and pregnant women. Moreover, antimalarial drugs resistance, particularly Plasmodium falciparum malaria, has become a major problem in malaria control. South-East Sulawesi is a malaria endemic area where about 28,205 and 32,040 cases of malaria were reported in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Artes…