TELAAH PEMBANGUNAN KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT DI KABUPATEN SERANG TAHUN 2016

Abstract

Health development is basically build quality of human life with the aim of
increasing awareness, willingness and ability of healthy life for everyone to realize the
degree of public health as high. Problems related to health are the problems faced
every day by the people, and a serious concern for the government. Therefore, the index
measuring people's health is one of the efforts to determine the health status and health
problems in an area. This study aims to describe how the index of health development in
Serang District in 2016. The study was a descriptive quantitative research. The results
showed that the index of development of Health in Serang District is at 0.7709 with a
good category. Of some indicators found that the indicators that need attention are the
indicators related to access to water, access to sanitation, diseases caused by poor
conditions of hygiene and healthy behavior such as diarrhea and hypertension. Average
public behavior that no support is smoking behavior, dental hygiene and handwashing
mouth.