Hubungan Karakteristik Masyarakat Petani Dengan Upaya Pencegahan Penyakit Filariasis di Desa Peunayan Kecamatan Nisam Kabupaten Aceh Utara

Abstract

The elephantiasis (filariasis) disease is a contagious chronically disease, which caused by filaria worm infection. The disease emerge symptom such as periodic fever, lymph gland chafe, edema. This spread by many kinds of mosquitoes and become chronic. This research is an explanatory survey research, which was done hypothesis examination on the research. The method of collecting the data conducted by questionnaire, by documentasion study, doing interview, and by research perhaps. The research location was held ini Peunayan Village in Nisam region of North Aceh, based on the highest MF-rate endemic area, and population was 71 responden. Based on the research outcome there is no relationship berween social, economic, education, knowledge, infrastructure and manufacture, information status with the prevention program of filariasis desease ini Peunayan village of Nisam region in North Aceh. Suggest to the heath officer to improve their behavior by giving continues counseling, give optimum health service to the society, so that the people become sure on the given health service, and also to give interest and motivation for other researchers to improve the research output by doing deeper research in other place.