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Penanganan coronavirus (covid-19) : ditinjau dari perspektif kesehatan masyarakat
No full textCOVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) pertama kali ditemukan di kota Wuhan, China pada akhir Desember 2019. Virus ini menular dengan sangat cepat dan telah menyebar ke hampir semua negara, termasuk Indonesia, sejumlah kasus pneumonia dengan penyebab yang tidak diketahui muncul dengan demam, kelelahan, batuk, dan kesulitan bernafas, saat gejala utama terjadi dalam waktu singkat. Pemerintah Cina dan departemen kesehatan di semua tingkatan sangat mementingkan penyakit ini dan segera memberlakukan tindakan untuk pengendalian penyakit dan perawatan medis, serta mengarahkan lembaga penelitian untuk memulai penyelidikan, perawatan, dan penelitian kolaboratif. Patogen penyakit dengan cepat diidentifikasi sebagai coronavirus baru, yang kemudian dikonfirmasi oleh Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) dengan nama virus 2019-nCoV sementara Komite Internasional tentang Taksonomi Virus (ICTV : International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses) menciptakannya SARS-Cov-2; dan pneumonia yang disebabkan oleh infeksi virus disebut novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) oleh WHO.Buku ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman tentang penyakit khususnya terkait dengan coronavirus Covid-19 di antara masyarakat serta orang-orang dalam profesi yang relevan, dan untuk memberikan panduan tentang pencegahan dan pengendalian lingkungan dan Kesehatan Masyarakat yang diukur untuk mengurangi risiko penularan. Buku ini juga membahas upaya-upaya Pencegahan Covid-19 dari berbagai aspek yaitu aspek Kesehatan Lingkungan, Kesehatan Mental (Psikologis), Epidemiologi, Keperawatan, Kefarmasian, Gizi serta Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat (PHBS). Diharapkan semua elemen masyarakat dapat membaca kemudian menerapkan upaya-upaya pencegahan dan pengendalian kasus pandemik ini. Upaya menjaga kesehatan secara mandiri ini bahkan dianjurkan untuk diterapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, tidak hanya dalam situasi pandemi Covid-19 ini saja akan tetapi juga untuk penyakit-penyakit yang lain dan akan datang
Relationship of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community with Malaria Incidence in Sub-district of West Walenrang District of Luwu, Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Get PDFMalaria is a global health issue and a serious problem since the beginning of the discovery until present. One of the region's still high endemicity of malaria is Asia Pacific. According to WHO, in this region occurred 25 million cases and 50,000 deaths per year. One of the countries in this region are quite high malaria endemicity is Indonesia, which occurred 40,000 cases per year. As for regions in Indonesia are still malaria is endemic cover Papua, Maluku, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and several smaller islands. Even though, the government has organized various programs in order to control the spread of malaria, such as malaria eradication, malaria control and elimination of malaria. The low ranking of knowledge, attitudes and practices of communities to control malaria on suspected as government less effective so that the large programs that has developed the cause. This is true because the program execution system dominated government closed the public opportunity to participate in the program, so that at the same time the knowledge, attitudes and deeds cannot develop properly. As this situation has the potential to be a challenge for the government in an effort to create control program that integrated and comprehensive in the future. This research aims to know the relationship between knowledge, attitude and practice of people with malaria events. This study also used a quantitative approach to analyze a cross sectional study the results of the interview with selected respondents, namely 86 families residing in the area of research. The results show that there is a relationship between knowledge, attitude and practice with the incidence of malaria in the sub district of West Walenrang, districts of Luwu, Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The incidence of malaria including weak category as for the strength of relationship between knowledge, attitude and practices. Based on these results, it is suggested to the government would give adequate attention to the improvement of knowledge, attitudes and practices of the community in malaria control program. Level of knowledge, attitudes and practices of community that adequate can be a modal to save the sustainable program of malaria control program conducted. On the other side, this approach can also be a smart solution on limited of the government in controlling the spread of malaria, both human and budget resources
