FAKTOR LINGKUNGAN DAN PERILAKU KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT YANG BERPENGARUH TERHADAP KEJADIAN FILARIASIS BRUGIA MALAYI : STUDI DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS LIMPASU KABUPATEN HULU SUNGAI TENGAH PROPINSI KALIMANTAN SELATAN

Filariasis still became a helath problem ini the work area oh Limpasu Health Center, Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency. This disease spead in the society, whose environment was dominated by swamps that well potensial for mosquitos to hatch their larvas. This kind of environment is claimed as endemic filariasis zone however, the survey resulted that finger blood test in 2006, showed that the presence of micro filarial was at the rate of 4,16 %. The objective of this research was to analyze the environment factor and health behavior of the society towards the incident of Brugia malayi Filariasis in Limpasu Health Center, Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency. The research used analytical observational design to analyze various environment factors and the health behavior of the society, which those aspects infleeced the presence of filariasis in Limpasu Health Center, Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency. The engineering this research was comparative cross sectional design. By using quertionaire form, observation form and doing surveylance entomologi there fore gained the data that was analysis which drawed the studied variables, presented in frequency distribution and cross tabulation with percentage. Then the data was analysed by using simple logistic regression to variable which is examined by using p<0,25 to analyse environmental condition factors and people health behavior which has risk to filariasis incidence in public health center Limpasu Hulu Sungai Tengah regency. To knowing the most variable to filariasis incidence in Hulu Sungai Tengah regency it was done double logistic regression by using p