Pengaruh Sanitasi Makanan Terhadap Kejadian Diare Pada Balita Di Desa Kedondong Kecamatan Sokaraja Tahun 2011

Abstract

Diarrhea is the defecation with a liquid faeces or semi-liquid and the content of stools more than 200 ml/24 hours. In developing countries is estimated at more than 5 million children die every year from diarrhea. Diarrhea cases in Central Java was ranked second with the data of outpatient visits in health centers and the ranked is 195.907, or 10.46% of the 1,873,114 patients and inpatient in hospital for 12 719 or 36.27%, it menas diarrhea including one incident Extraordinary (KLB) in Central Java. The results of a preliminary study on the population with 5 people who were live at Kedondong village, three mothers of children who had diarrhea of which mention had been treated in hospital. Two people among those also explained that diarrhea disease in children is caused due to the provision of clean water, food hygiene toddlers, and the factor of the perception that it is infectious diarrhea directly. Based on this phenomenom, the authors interested in studying the effects of food sanitation on the incidence of diarrhea in the village of the District Kedondong Sokaraja.

The design of the research is analytic survey with cross sectional approach. Bivariate statistical tests in this study is done by using Chi Square test is used to estimate the frequency of the investigated or analyzed the results of observation to determine whether there is a relationship or a significant difference.

Keywords: sanitation, diarrhea, toddlers