Peningkatan Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat (PHBS) Serta Pentingnya Pemeriksaan Laboratorium dalam Pencegahan Penyakit Demam Berdarah (DBD) di Kelurahan Kedungwuni Barat

Abstract

The implementation of clean and healthy living behavior must start from the smallest unit of society, namely PHBS in the household as an effort to empower household members to know, want and be able to practice clean and healthy living behavior and play an active role in the health movement in the community. The benefits of PHBS can have an impact on the prevention of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), so that family members can be free from the risk of DHF. Prevention of DHF disease is in the form of primary prevention, namely preventing the spread of the disease with PHBS and secondary prevention, namely preventing it from becoming DHF disease with danger signs with laboratory examinations. Disease (DHF) is one of the public health problems in Indonesia, the number of sufferers of which tends to increase and its spread is increasingly widespread. This infectious disease is caused by the dengue virus with its vectors being the Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Aedes scutellaris mosquitoes, but until now the main vector of DHF is the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The purpose of this activity is to provide an explanation about DHF and how it is transmitted, various ways to prevent dengue fever with PHBS, and increase knowledge about the need for laboratory examinations in the early stages of the disease for the people of West Kedungwuni Village so that they can play an active role in preventing DHF for themselves, their families and the surrounding environment.