Background: The statement of WHO, there were 22 countries classified as high burden of TB Pulmonary, including Indonesia. The detection of smear positive (BTA+) patients in Indonesia is still low and filtering suspect rate also decreased since 2007 until 2010. It is required to improve the detection patient of tuberculosis. Objective: This study aimed to assess the adult pulmonary TB risk facto…
Background: Tuberculosis was an infectious disease and remains a public health problem in the world, including Indonesia. Based on the WHO report in 2009, Indonesia was included into the group of high-burden countries, ranks third after India and China. Indonesia in 1993/1994 began using alloys Anti Tuberculosis (TB) called Kombipak. Although this alloy has a high effectiveness in the treatment…
Tuberculosis in Indonesia still ranted third largest in the world after India and China with approx 539,000 new cases and the number of deaths around 101.000/year. Knowledge factors of pulmonary is a very important factor in the transmission of Tuberculosis. To know the aspects of knowledge, attitude and behavior of people in connection with pulmonary TB disease has been studied in Tangerang Re…
Tuberculosis (TB) Paru is still one of the major health problems in West Sumatera. Many efforts has been conducted to outcome the problem, one of them is the DOTS strategy. The survey of community knowledge, attitude and behaviour related to tuberkulosis Paru was conducted in Sungai Tarab subdistrict, Tanah Datar Regency in 2010. The survey aims to explore community knowledge, attitude and beh…
Tuberculosis (TB) Pulmonary is still one of the major health problems in Indonesia, and included in the province of West Sumatra. Many efforts has been conducted to outcome the problem, one of them is the DOTS strategy. From the results of countermeasures that have been implemented was the scope of the discovery of the TB patients are expected to 70% in Year 2009 in West Sumatra Province can on…
Indonesia there were recorded 304.787 cases of tuberculosis that places at the third level in the world. Tuberculosis is the third level disease which caused of death after cardiovasculer and respiratori tract disease in all age groups and at the first level from all infectious disease. The residence density rate in Palembang is higher 5,84 times than ideal rate. The objective of this study is …
Aim Obesity leads to various complications, including pulmonary dysfunction. Studies on pulmonary function of obese children are limited and the results are controversial. This study was aimed to determine proportion of pulmonary dysfunction on early adolescents with obesity and to evaluate correlation between obesity degree with pulmonary dysfunction degree. Methods A cross-sectional study wa…
Pulmonary TB disease remains a public health problem in Indonesia. In recent years, the prevalence of TB increases. The increased prevalence was influenced by many factors including community socio-economic and cultural, related to tuberculosis. Data obtained from several sources, suchas literature reviews and researches, and narratively presented. From several sources had known that most patie…