Pengaruh Lingkungan Tempat Pembuangan Akhir Sampah, Personal Hygiene dan Indeks Massa Tubuh (IMT) terhadap Keluhan Kesehatan pada Pemulung di Kelurahan Terjun Kecamatan Medan Marelan Tahun 2012
| Main Author: | Listautin |
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| Other Authors: | Marsaulina, Irnawati, Naria, Evi |
| Format: | Masters |
| Bahasa: | ind |
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.usu.ac.id/handle/123456789/33879 |
Daftar Isi:
- TPA (landfill) is area which is functioned to reduce the problems of waste capacity, but the problem will actually arise if the landfill is managed with good and true. This kind of management will cause environmental pollution which eventually will bring about health problem in respiratory system, digestion system, and skin disease. The aim of the research was to analyze the related of landfill environment, personal hygiene, and Body Mass Index (BMI)on the scavengers’ health complaint at Kelurahan Terjun, Medan Marelan Subdistrict. The research used descriptive method with cross sectional design. The population was 82 scavengers who did their activities at the landfill, and the samples were obtained with purpose sampling method. The object were ambience which contained hydrogen sulfide and methane. The data were analyzed by conducting multiple logistic regression tests. The results of the research showed that there were the influences of the exposition of the sunlight (p=0.033), chemical substance hydrogen sulfide (p=0.014), work duration (p=0.039), hand, nail, and foot cleanliness (p=0.026), and body protection device (p=0.001) to the health complaint. The variables which did not have any related on the health complaint were the exposition of odors (p=0.384), contact with vectors (p=0.369), hair cleanliness (p=0.422), and BMI (p=0.353). The most dominant influence of the result of multiple logistic regression tests was the personal hygiene with the Exp (β) of 8.152. Conclusions of this research is an influence of personal hygiene on their health as scavengers. Recommended to those scavengers to keep care personal hygiene on the skin cleanliness more, sugested everybody to have shower routinely and use own utensils, change working clothes every day, wearing always the clothes with good absorption and comfortable to use.
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