Tingkat Pengetahuan Ibu Balita tentang Penyakit DHF di Desa Tergo RW 01 Kecamatan Dawe Kabupaten Kudus
Abstract
In 20 06, ou tbreaks of dengue fever were reported for the first time in Indo nesia in the form of Extraordinary Events dengue fever in Jakarta and Surabaya are 58 cases with 24 death rate (41.5%). There are 2.5 to 3 billion people as the DHF pa tients. Aedes aegypti is the vector of the epidemic main. Moreover, the spread of this disease is estimated 50 to 10 0 million cases per year that co nsists of 90% for children under 15 years and the average number of deaths (Case Fatality Rate / CFR) reached 5%, in epidemic nature Cyclical (repeated at regular intervals). In Central Java, DHF has currently reached 21 415 cases, 261 of them died. Kudu s belongs to endemic area of DHF. If we look at the incidence of DHF Kudus, nu mber o f patients with DHF f rom Jan uary to March 2010 are 363 cases, and 19 of them are died. This study aims to describe the rate of mother Toddlers Kno wledge about Disease in Tergo RW 01, Dawe Kudu s 2 011. This research belong s to descriptive research with the primary purpose that provides an overview the level of knowledge mothers ab out DHF disease. Most of mothers have less knowledge level is less than 17 people (56.7%). M ost people have dirty environmental co nditions is less than 14 people (46.7% ).