FAKTOR LINGKUNGAN DALAM PEMBERANTASAN PENYAKIT CACING USUS DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Intestinal helminthes diseases is still a major public health problem in Indonesia, especially in children less than 5 years old and in basic-school age children. These diseases may cause low status of general health, nutritional, retardation of intelegent development, and reduce productivity of adult. In the long run, it will influence the quality of human resources of Indonesia. Distribution of helminthes infectionis closely related to individual as well as community's hygiene-sanitation, and environment health by polluting water and soil with feces containing helminthes eggs and or larvae. Distribution of helminthes infection is not limitted around the foci but also cover area of better socio-economic level where environment health is well-concioused. Factors which are supported the spreading of the diseses are habit of defication else where in the back yard, lack of latrine, and repeated flooding. Treatment of the diseses without environment health improvement may give unsatisfactory results since immediate re-infection willoccur. Therefor intestinal helminthes diseases control can not be done without development of hygienic and healthy way of life of the community and better environment health. Those are are depended on the educational level and knowledge of the community upon hygienic and healthy-live. This time when there is limmitted availlable budget of the Goverment, control may depend on the treatment of the positive patients and incouragement of community perception on healthy-live by conducting health promotion. It can be done through agenda of teaching at the Basic-school level and through social community activities such as "PKK meeting", "Posyandu activities", environment health competition etc. Keywords: intestinal helminthes, environment health, control