SANITASI LINGKUNGAN DAN HYGIENE PERORANGAN DENGAN KEJADIAN DEMAM TIFOID DI KECAMATAN NGEMPLAK KABUPATEN BOYOLALI TAHUN 2010

Background: Typhoid fever is a disease caused by Salmonella typhi bacterial infection. The disease is still a public health problem particularly in developing countries. It is closely related with unhealthy environmental sanitation condition and poor practice of personal hygiene. In Indonesia, the d...

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Main Authors: , Zulfikar, , Prof. Dr. dr. Adi Heru Sutomo, M.Sc.
Format: Thesis
Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
Subjects:
ETD
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Summary:Background: Typhoid fever is a disease caused by Salmonella typhi bacterial infection. The disease is still a public health problem particularly in developing countries. It is closely related with unhealthy environmental sanitation condition and poor practice of personal hygiene. In Indonesia, the disease is very endemic and occurs throughout the year in all regions. Subdistrict of Ngemplak is a subdistrict at the District of Boyolali that has the highest cases, i.e. 656 cases in 2009 or nearly 44% of all cases at the district with mortality as much as 9.26 per 1,000 population. This figure is higher than the overage rate of typhoid fever incidence in Indonesia