Analysis of A Healthy and Hygienic Lifestyle Towards Patients With Leprosy in Sukatani Bekasi District 2020
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.037How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Leprosy, Healthy, Hygienic Life Style
- Abstract
Background: Leprosy is a contagious disease that can cause several very complex problems for sufferers and the environment. The problems that occur are not only problems from a medical perspective, but will also extend to problems in the social, economic, cultural, security, and even national resilience environment. From the total population data obtained by the author, Sukatani District consists of 7 villages with a population of 74,944 people and the percentage of people with leprosy was 1,274 or 1.7% in 2018. Methods: One of the ways that can be done in preventing the spread of leprosy is by implementing behavior in accordance with the Healthy and Hygienic Lifestyle in Indoensia call “Pola Hidup Bersih dan Sehat” or PHBS which is socialized by the government and can be applied in the community such as washing hands with soap before and after eating with water. That flows, uses clean water, uses a healthy toilet or latrine, performs regular physical activity, eats enough fruits and vegetables, and does not smoke in the home environment. From the description above, the authors conducted research on the Analysis of Healthy and Hygienic Lifestyle toward Patiens with Leprosy which includes behavioral and environmental aspects on 25 leprosy patients in the Sukatani, Bekasi District, West Java. Results: are that most of the respondents in the application of a healthy and hygienc lifestyle in a household structure are in the Main Healthy Category (85%), for the behavioral aspects most of them are in the good category (92%), while for the environmental aspects, most of them are in the Main Healthy Category (85%) and Enough Category (80%). Conclusions: The implementation of Healthy and Hygienic Lifestyle in household arrangements for behavioral aspects of leprosy patients in Sukatani is mostly good, the implementation of Healthy and Hygienic lifestyle in the household structure in the aspect of environment is mostly sufficient, and the implementation of healthy and hygienic lifestyle for leprosy patients in Sukatani is mostly within the main healthy criteria. For further researchers are to be able to conduct research on the factors that cause leprosy in communities living in the Sukatani District, Bekasi Regency, West Java.
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TY - CONF AU - Anwar H Syaefunnuril AU - Suanda Saputra AU - M. Nur Iqbal PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/25 TI - Analysis of A Healthy and Hygienic Lifestyle Towards Patients With Leprosy in Sukatani Bekasi District 2020 BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Health Development. Covid-19 and the Role of Healthcare Workers in the Industrial Era (ICHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 217 EP - 220 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.037 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.037 ID - Syaefunnuril2020 ER -