PHYSICAL CONDITION OF HEALTH CONNECTION LINGKNGAN HOUSE WITH CHILDREN EVENT PNEUMONIA in CHILDREN

Acute Respiratory Disease (ARD) is still a health problem that can not be overcome. ISPA is a disease common in children under five. Based on ARI tingkatkegawatannya divided into two, namely pneumonia and non-pneumonia. Pneumonia is an illness with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath or rapid breathing accompanied, respiratory frequency 40 times per minute or more. Incidence of pneumonia in the work area Kepahiang health centers in 2002 was 261 cases with the distribution of 28.24% (74 cases) attacking children aged less than one year and 71.76% (187 cases) affects children aged 1 -5 years. The research objective is fatherly image mengatahui mengaenai home health conditions of the physical environment (occupancy density, lighting conditions, ventilation condition, bulkhead to kitchen chimney and wall types) in relation to the incidence of pneumonia in child health centers in the region of bakita Kepahiang Kepahiang District. Kind of research that used cross sectinal study.Analisa used univariate and bivariate analysis is, by using survey methods associated with monitoring the quality of home environment. To examine the relationship with the incidence of pneumonia conditions home used chi square test with SPSS version 10.0 for Windows. The population in this study were all households with children under five in all villages in the work area Kepahiang clinic. Number of samples taken over 120 samples. From the result showed the existence of residential densities that do not meet the health requirements of 47.50%, the lighting conditions that do not meet the health requirements of 38.33%, ventilation conditions that do not meet the health requirements of 53.33%, which is not a kitchen bulkhead at 35 %, the kitchen is no smoke hole of 39.17% kind of woven bamboo walls (gedek) by 30%. From the results of bivariate analysis found a significant association between residential density (p = 0.000), lighting conditions (p = 0.000), where the bulkhead in the kitchen (p = 0.003), the condition of the smoke hole (p = 0.000), type of wall (p = 0.000 ) with the incidence of pneumonia. And that does not mean that the condition of ventilation (p = 0.376) with pneumonia. From these results disaranakan to the health center staff to improve public knowledge about the importance of a healthy home through integrated counseling (clinic staff, district officials and community leaders).