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Karakteristik Penderita dan Faktor Lingkungan Fisik yang Berhubungan dengan Kejadian Filariasis di Kabupaten Malang
Elephantiasis is one of infectious diseases that still become a health problem in Indonesia, especially in the suburbs. Indonesia is exclaimed as a country with the highest prevalence of elephantiasis. Malang regency government. east [ava, exclaims that there is an increasing number of elephantiasis sufferer in Malang. The factors which cause the increasing number are the infectious vectors. physical environment. biological environment, a large number of mosquito and the local human's characteristic. The objective of this research is to identify the number of elephantiasis sufferer in Malang regency in July 2006 - July 2008, identify the elephantiasis sufferer characteristic (age. sex, resident. job and working time. dress-ing habit, and protection using habit) and to identify the physical environment factor (forest. swamp. field. gutter. river and beach) which causes the elephantiasis cases in Malang regency. It is an epidemiologic observational descriptive research. The research setting is all district of Malang regency which is positively exclaimed has a lot of number of elephantiasis sufferer (January 2002 - July 2008). The sample is chosen by using non-probability sampling method. The researcher uses questionnaire to interview as a primary data. The research result indicates that the number of elephantiasis sufferer in Malang regency in January 2002-July 2008 is 29 sufferer in thirteen districts: Bantur. Bululawang. Dampit. Dau. Donomulyo. Gedangan. Gondanglegi. Kepanjen. Ngajum. Sumber Manjing Wetan. Poncokusumo. Pagak and Pujon. The three-sufferer characteristic combination; aqe-sjcb-workinq time is the majority founded in elephantiasis sufferer characteristic in Malang regency. while the three-physical environment combination; field-qutter-sriver is the majority founded in physical environment factor in Malang regency.
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