Increasing traditional gold mining activities can cause environmental pollution and affected the public health. So that, the study was needed in order to assess the determinants that influenced Hg exposure biomarker of population working in or living near gold mining and processing in Gunung MasDistrict, Central Kalimantan. Subjects in cross sectional study were 112 traditional miners and 112 l…
Forests burning is one of the major sources of air pollution in the countryside that extends into urban areas. Respiratory tract disease is the biggest number of disease in developing countries. One of the factors of the occurrence of upper respiratory tract disease because of poor air quality. The research objective is to determine the impact of forest fires on public health, especially upper …
Increasing informal gold mining activities can cause environmental pollution and affected the public health. So that, the study was needed in order to assess health risk of population working in or living near informal gold mining and processing in Gunung Mas District, Central Kalimantan. Subjects in cross sectional study were 112 informal miners and 112 living near informal gold mining and pro…
Air is an environmental medium where microbe such as bacteria, viruses,and fungi can live and may infect exposed people. As the microbes requireappropriate condition to live and grow, particular physical environment of airmay associate with microbial density rate. To determine this association, across-sectional study has been conducted in in-patient wards of MakassarPublic Hospital of Hajj. Qua…
Air quality in several cities in Indonesia has degraded in the last two decades, due to the increasing of urbanization and economic activities. The degradation of air quality occurs because of the anthropogenic source such as industry emissions, motor vehicles emission etc has exceed the environment ‘s burden capacity. Fine particulate matter PM2.5 (particulate with aerodynamic diameter less …