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…
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a vector borne disease which is still a problem in Indonesia, because the morbidity associated with death. The main causes of dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti therefore important to prevent mosquito bites Ae. aegypti. One way to prevent bites Ae. aegypti is used as personal protective repelan. Some plants that contain essential oils can be used as repelan. …
Ovarian aging has been noted in some vertebrate animals and human being, indicated by low estrogen level. This is related to enhancement of lipid (obesity) and some metabolic diseases such as hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, etc. Pare juice (Momordica charantia L.), contains of abundant advantageous bioactivities, such as hypoglycemic effect, antioxidant, hypocholesterolemic, and hypo…
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…
Miringoplasty is a reconstructive operatif procedure limited to repair timpanic memberane perforation, with mobile ossicular chain, and no pathological tissue in the middle ear cavity. Myringoplasty using lateral graft, the failure cause by reperforation of the tympanic membrane. Mediolateral gfat technique, as a hybrid from medial and lateral technique, could decrease the failure of the myring…
Antropometric indexes such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) hip ciucumference (HC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR), areall useful anthropometric measurements to provide important information on blood glucose concentrations. The aim of this study was to determiine different anthropometric measurementts, in particular BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference and waist-to hip ratio…
Anthropometric indexes such as body mass index (BMI), wast circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), and waist hip ratio (WHR), are useful measurcments to provide information on blood glucose concentration. The aim of this study was to determine several anthropomentric measurements, in particular BMI, WC, HC and WHR, in their ability to predict the blood glucose levels in men and women 40 to …