In Strategic Plan of Ministry of Health year 2009-2014, health priority, among others are to increase health service enhanced at DTPK and health restructure and environment quality supervision. This study aims to detect environment health status description of society who live in DTPK-T. Sample are from 199 less development district area, 20 borderlands district/city area, 19 archipelagoes dist…
Soil transmitted helminth diseases are wide spread in urban and rural areas. Soil transmitted helminth disease is still a public health problem in Indonesia due to the prevalence is still high with range 45-65%. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the association between knowledge, practice, and environmental sanitation and soil transmitted helminth disease prevalence …
Schistosomiasis is one of the most important parasitic diseases in public health. In Indonesia schistosomiasis caused by worms Schistosoma japonicum in Oncomelania hupensis snail intermediate host lindoensis. The disease is only found in Studi Kebijakan Pengendalian … (Ahmad Erlan, Muh. Junaidi, Ni Nyoman Veridiana, Puryadi, Octaviani) 43 Central Sulawesi province in two districts of Poso…
Roles of primary health care center (HC) are very important to achieve Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) target in Indonesia. The Ministry of Health Indonesia provides Basic Emergency Obstetric Care (BEmOC), in which the HC is capable with appropriate facilities (trained personnel, equipment, logistics, drugs, and transportation) to carry out basic emergency maternity and 24-hours neonatal services…
The result of Basic Health Research in 2007 shown that lung tuberculosis cases spread out all over Indonesia. Meanwhile, the 2010 Basic Health Research shown the prevalence of lung TB was 725 per 100,000 populations. Side effects are among the causes of therapy drop out thus resulted in bacterial resistance which further caused the severity of TB. This research aimed to explore the informat…
Rotaviruses are the leading cause of gastroenteritis in young children. The incidence of diarrhea due to rotavirus in Indonesia is evenly throughout the year with the mortality approximately of 10,088 children in a year. These viruses are transmitted by fecal-oral route with high rate of transmission. More than 50 combinations G-P known as strain that infect human with the predominant serotypes…
The antiacne activity of paste and powder of chitosan – Garcinia mangostana extract nanoparticles were observed that it’s against of Propionibacterium acnes. The paste of nanoparticles has been prepared by ionic gelation reaction by mixture 0.2% chitosan solution in acetic acid with Garcinia mangostana 70% ethanol extract and it’s continued by reaction process with 0.1% sodium tripolyphos…
Flu or common-cold is an acute upper respiratory tract infection mainly caused by virus, and a self-limiting disease which is requires only symptomatic treatments to alleviate the symptoms. Common-cold medication is usually an OTC drug and a fixed-dose combination of various active ingredients. The purpose of this paper is to review the active ingredients in cold medicines and how to select the…
Schistosomiasis is one of neglected parasitic diseaseds and also a zoonosic disease, in addition to humans it also infect mammals. There were 13 known mammals that can be infected by schistosomiasis, i.e. cattle (Bos sundaicus), buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), horse (Equus Cabalus), dog (Canis familiaris), pig (Sus sp), civet cat(Vivera tangalunga), deer (Cervus timorensis), and various types of rat…
Filariasis elimination program in Indonesia set two pillars that cut the transmission with the prevention of filariasis mass drug administration (POMP filariasis) in endemic areas and preventing and limiting disability due to filariasis. POMP minimum coverage by 85% must be achieved to break the chain of transmission. Bandung Regency POMP coverage is still low at 78% compared to other regions i…