Sunday, August 5, 2012

CONDITION OF ENVIRONMENT, BEHAVIOR HEALTHY LIVING, AND FAMILY HEALTH STATUS OF WOMEN PICKER TEA

The aim of this research was to understanding environmental condition, healthy life behaviour, and health status of women tea picker’s family in PTPN VIII Pengalengan, Bandung, East Java. This research was used cross sectional study design. The samples of this research were 92 women tea picker’s families who live in purposively chosen cluster area of Malabar Plantation. The criteria of the sample were having children in 0-72 month age and willing to be interviewed.
Malabar Plantation was chosen from the other five clusters base on its accessibility and the homogenous samples inter cluster. Primary data consists of family characteristics, environmental condition, healthy life behavior, and family’s health status. Secondary data consists of general description of Malabar Plantation and Banjarsari Village. Data were processed and analyze with descriptive and inference statistics. The result revealed that condition of environment where family lives are in average category, only few families lives in good environmental condition. Family’s health behavior is in good category. The symptoms/kind of disease that can be found were fever, acute respiratory
infection (ARI), infection of gastrointestinal tract, skin disease, and hepatitis.
Family member who is susceptible to disease is the children. The related factors to environmental condition of women tea picker’s family are family’s income and of family’s size. Water which is one environmental condition is correlated with women tea picker’s family’s health status. ARI and hepatitis cases are correlated
with the source of clean water for to bath or wash; and the usage of clean water for hand wash after defecation, the better of water source, the less cases of disease.

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