Summary: | Background: Malaria disease in Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Regency, until today
still be public health problem. Sosoh Buay Rayap subdistrict from 2007-2008,
form of malaria high risk area (high incidence area). In 2007, API was 1.35%, in
2008, API was 1.07%, in 2009, API was 5.5%.
Objective: Mapping a spatial distribution of malaria incident and identified the
environmental factors, mosquito net utilization, iron-gauze installation, family
income, and distance of public health service facilities to the malaria incident
location in Sosoh Buay Rayap Subdistrict, OKU Regency.
Methods: This was observational study by case control study design using
geographic information system (GIS). The population of study were all population
in Sosoh Buay Rayap Subdistrict, OKU Regency, which suffer from malaria.
Sample was calculated using formula to determine sample size to testing
hypothesis to the odds-ratio, and it was obtained the sample were 43 peoples for
cases and 86 peoples for control. Data was analyzed using Chi Square test,
GeoDa and clustering analysis was performed by SatScan.
Results: In this study, most of cases group member was belong to age group
over than 20 years old (69.8%), male (55.8%), graduate of elementary school
(60.5%) and work as farmer (48.8%). Chi square analysis showed that the risk
factors of malaria incidence were
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