HUBUNGAN KONDISI FISIK RUMAH, SARANA AIR BERSIH DAN KARAKTERISTIK MASYARAKAT DENGAN KEJADIAN KUSTA DI KABUPATEN TAPIN KALIMANTAN SELATAN
Journal Title: Kes Mas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat - Year 2010, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: leprosy is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae the attacks the peripheral nerves, the skin and other tissue except the central nervous system. Indonesia has third position as great number of cases of leprosy after India and Brazil at years 2005 there is 19.695 cases. In years 2007, prevalence of leprosy in Indonesia was 1,05 case per 10.000 population. The Tapin regency was the leprosy endemic area, when years by years newly detected cases. The aim of this research to determine the relationship of physical condition of the house, fresh water instalation and characteristic of community with cases of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo. Method : Analityc observational studies using case-control. The act of determining the case sample is taken by using the totality sample and the act of determining the control sample is taken by using the purposive sample. The case number of 31 people and the control number of 62 people. Results: Based on result of bivariate test there are 3 meaningful variables statistically relationship with cases of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo, i.e phisical home condition (p=0,013), history of contact (p=0,000) and level of education (p=0,002). The variables not related with cases of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo, i.e fresh water instalation (p=0,099), age (p=0,226) and occupation (p=0,559). The result of multivariate test there are 3 the most dominant variable within spread of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo, i.e the history of contact (p=0,002), level of education (p=0,006) and phisical home condition (p=0,043). Conclusion: There was significant relation between the phisical home condition, history of contact and level of education with cases of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo. The history of contact, level of education and phisical home condition was the most dominant cases of leprosy in Tapin Regency South Borneo.
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Norlatifah Norlatifah, Adi Heru Sutomo, Solikhah Solikhah
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- DOI 10.12928/kesmas.v4i3.1016
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