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Kebijakan Pengendalian Kecacingan dan Pengetahuan Masyarakat Terhadap Kecacingan di Kabupaten Banjar Propinsi Kalimantan Selatan (The Policy of Helminthiasis Control and Public Knowledge Againts Helminthiasis in Banjar Regency South Kalimantan Province)

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Background: Helminthiasis is a neglected disease that lack of attention both prevention and handling. Even Though helminthiasis is tent not to be deadly disease but it can reduce the nutrition that influence the growth and mental of the children. For the adult it brings oot the reducing of productivity. That's why it is very important to determine helminthiasis prevention strategies in South Kalimantan by doing a comprehensive effort to be the basic data for determining policies to helminthiasis control programs appropriatly. This study is aimed to know the specific aspects that retail the program of helminthiasis control in Banjar Regency; South Kalimantan.

Methods: It is descriptive study with cross sectional design. The data are collected by indepth interview to the policy holder that has connection with the helminthiasis control and the guardian of elementary schoo, they are 291 respondents.

Results: There has not any coordination yet between cross programs and sector to control helminthiasis and there has not any budget yet for heiminthiasis program. Those are one of the obstruction that make helminthiasis program can not wotk effectively. The public knowledge of Ranier Regency about helminthiasis is in good level. There is no relationship between parental knowledge with helminthiasis otherwise there is relationship between knowledge of children with helminthiasis.
Conclusion : Policy only focus on curative services due to helminthiasis is not a deadly disease. Recommendation: Increasing the budget of program and improving the awarenessof across sector and program will support helmithiasis contol program.

Keywords: Policy, control, knowledge, public, helminthiasis.

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Buletin Penelitian Sistem Kesehatan, 17 (2) 2014

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Jakarta : Buletin Penelitian Sistem Kesehatan., 2014

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1410-2935

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