Filariasis (elephantiasis disease) in Indonesia is still a health problems, there are still areas with the patient chronic and acute. A total of 1553 villages in 647 health centers scattered in 231 districts in 26 provinces as the location of the endemic, with a number of chronic cases of 6233 people. Elimination program disease elephantiasis has been undertaken by the government, but until tod…
Malaria is still a public health problem in Tanjung Uban Health Center, Bintan regency, Kepulauan Riau. Annual Malaria Incidence (AMI) in Tanjung Uban Health Center in 2006 was reported 101.5‰. Though house spraying had been done in 2003-2006. The number of mosquitoes was still high based in entomology survey in July 2008-December 2008. The number of mosquitoes collection was as many as 2212 …
Malaria is still a public health problem in Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Regency. The treatment of malaria for Plasmodium falciparum in the OKU regency has been using artesdiaquine since 2007 and for Plasmodium vivax in 2009. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness Artesdiaquine as anti-malarial drugs and the side effects of therapeutic. This research was conducted using an observa…
Respirable particulates are particulates which having diameter size at 2-5 mm, due to aerodinamically may be inhaled through respiratory tract and having ability to deposit into lungs, causing damage of the alveolar tissues and inducing health problems. Health Departement of Bandung have reported that prevalency of acute respiratory tract infection disease have increased tendency every year. Me…
Dengue hemorrhagic fever has been one of the major health problems inIndonesia. As the disease spreads out by Aedes aegypti, a variety of wayshas been conducted to disconnect host, agent, and the environment chainincluding prevention of human contact with the vector using by various repellents.The present test compared the complete protection time of N,N-diethyl-3-metatoluamide (DEET) and citro…