Malaria remains a public health problem in Purworejo, although Purworejo is an area of low malaria case category (low case incidence) in Indonesia. Control efforts have been conducted by the program but control failures still occurred. One of the causes of control failure was caused by a lack of understanding on the behavior of vector species. Vector behavior has been studied longitudinally in…
Dengue fever is one of the most concerning health problems in Indonesia. For this time, there are merely no known medicines or vaccines to prevent this disease from manifesting. Rigorous studies are still conducted intensively. Hence, vector prevention and control efforts become very important. Indicator used here to conduct surveillance, measure Ae.aegypti population density and predict trans…
Galang as one ofthe 12 sub districts in the Batam city, still has the problem of malaria, it has a unique topography because it consists of several islands, coastal areas and population distribution concentrated on certain islands. Other, Galang has annual parasite index (API) 43.3 %oin 2006. The number of malaria cases in Galang showed an increase from 788 in 2 OO 6 to 2447 in 2 OO 7. Fo r sup…
Malaria continues to be a public health problem in the malaria endemic areas in Indonesia and often cause an outbreak. Batam municipality is the priority for development area in the Riau island Province, nevertheless malaria is still a public health problem. The national government and district office government have been committed to have a program for eliminating malaria at Batam area in year…
Malaria remains a major public health problem and causes outbreaks and re-emerging of malaria in places which previously had been declared to be malaria free in Indonesia. Malaria is very important issue in tourist industry, socio-economic impact and poverty. There are some risk factors of malaria transmission e.g. physical environment changes including the climate change such as rainfall, tem…
Dengue hemmorrhagic fever (DHF) is the one of vector born diseases which is a one a public health problem in Indonesia. The distribution and number of DHF cases are increases in Indonesia every years. The vector control using larvicides should be tested to know the effectivity. This reports describes the efficacy of larvacide altosid® 1.3 g for DHF vector Aedes aegypti control in three doses 2…
Malaria continues to be public health problem, it causes morbidity as well as outbreak in several remote areas in Indonesia. Vector control remains the most effective measure to prevent malaria transmission. The understanding of mosquito species, its bio-ecology, and the characteristic of their habitats are very important to formulate the vector control strategy. It was recognized that there ar…
Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever is still a public health problem in Indonesia the first DHF outbreak occurred in Jakarta in 1968, and it spreads to other areas later, coindicided with the increasing number of population. In line with it, there was an increasing number of districts andcitles with DHF in almost all province, from 226 districts/cities in 2005 to 330 districts/cities in 2006. The aim of …