Lead can insert into the body through the human digestive tract with food and drinks as well as through the respiratory tract into the lungs and blood vessels. Paddle rickshaw puller, motorized rickshaw pullers, traffic control officers, hawkers and street vendors located in major cities in Indonesia...

Worldwide, helminths infections are by far the leading cause of infection associated-eosinophilia and probably of eosinophilia of all causes. Due to behavioral aspects, partial immunity and other factors, prevalence rates and infection intensity are usually highest in children. Consequently, eosinophilia...

Artisanal gold mining activities in developing countries are still in concern with environmental and health issues regarding the impact which results from the activities. Amalgamation technique using mercury was commonly applied in extracting gold from the ore. During the process, mercury releases into...

Indonesia sanitation problem is claimed as the second worst in the world, although Community Total Led Sanitation (CLTS) program has been implementated since 2008. Once of CLTS activity is hand washing with soap. Data from Community Health Development Index (2010) show that hand washing practice is still...

Healthy and safety workplace was studied in one of national crude palm oil plant that located at North Sumatera. There are existed problems such as many flakes of palm oil aorund the dolly, spilled a fresh fruit bunches around the loading ramp, slippery area around tipler and rel track caused by mixing...

Modify the child oriented hospital environments can increase the fun, feeling safe and comfortable environment for the child so that the child is always evolving and feel comfortable in their environment. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of modifyng child oriented hospital environments...

Lead poisoning is one of the environmental problems around the world affecting human health. Children are at the greatest risk because lead is more easily absorbed by their growing bodies, and because their tissues are especially sensitive to damage. Even blood lead levels as low as 5 æg/dL can irreversibly...

Leachate collection tub on environmentally protective facility of Ganet lanfills is leak. It causing leachate seepage and contaminating around of fishpond in Ganet landfills with heavy metals such as Pb, Cu, and Zn. This heavy metals acumulation will causing health problems for aquatic biota. This study...

Efforts of controlling malaria have been carried out around the world. All these efforts are aimed to break the chain of transmission of malaria disease. Fluctuations of malaria incident are influenced by many risk factors which are generally different in each region. One of the influenced risk factors...

The Observation of heavy metals in sediments and gongong snails in the Coastal of Senggarang in Tanjungpinang city has been conducted in May-June 2016. The red mud pool located on Senggarang is a pool containing liquid waste excavation of bauxite mine predicted containing any heavy metals such as lead....

Health quality of the coastal environment is very critical due to sea water pollution by industrial waste, ports, marine transportation, domestic waste and community activities. Sea water pollution will have an impact on the environment, especially community water resources. Pollutants such as heavy...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is an infectious disease and has been endemic to many areas in Indonesia. Its cases have increased rapidly every year. This research focused on the family empowerment to prevent DHF. It was a qualitative-exploratory research by doing in-depth interviews, observation and...

Based on data from Health Department of Pematangsiantar, its House Index (HI) was 65.7% This condition requires attention for the Aedes aegypti mosquito control with the use of egg traps (ovitrap). The ovitrap can be modified by adding abate or natural products such as chili as attractant. The research...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem with global challenges. Several risk factors play role in the incidence of TB transmission in same house contact TB patient. In East Aceh Regency, pulmonary TB cases increased from 210 (36.4%) cases in 2010 to 236 (40.9%) cases in 2011. Aim of the study is...