scholarly journals Assessment of malaria as a public health problem in and around Arjo Didhessa Sugar Cane Plantation area, Western Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mebrate Dufera ◽  
Regea Debsu ◽  
Gemechu Tiruneh

Abstract Background: Although much progress has been made in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide in the last decade, malaria still remains the third leading cause of death and still considered as major public health problem. Objectives : The main objective of this study was to assess malaria as a public health problem in and around sugar cane plantation area of Arjo Didhessa sugar factory, Western Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross sectional study supplemented with clinical retrospective data, which included 452 study subjects was employed and the study period extended from May 2016 up to November of 2017. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess malaria risk factors and blood samples were received from all study participants and further subjected to Giemsa staining for determination of malaria prevalence. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20.Malaria risk factors were identified by multivariate logistic regression at significance level of P < 0.05 . Results: The overall malaria prevalence was 3.1%; Plasmodium vivax being the main type of malaria parasite. Overnight outdoor sleeping and improper utilization of mosquito bed nets were found to be statistically significant as malaria risk factors in the community. In the retrospective studies of five years, the peak malaria cases (13.84%) were reported in 2013 and less cases (1.24%) in 2017. Conclusion: The prevalence of malaria observed in the area is still higher as compared to national prevalence of malaria. Therefore; we recommend further strengthening of malaria prevention and control strategies. Additionally, educative training opportunities must be provided for workers in the plantation area on malaria prevention and control.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mebrate Dufera ◽  
Regea Debsu ◽  
Gemechu Tiruneh

Abstract Background: Although much progress has been made in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide in the last decade, malaria still remains the third leading cause of death and still considered as major public health problem. Objectives : The main objective of this study was to assess malaria as a public health problem in and around sugar cane plantation area of Arjo Didhessa sugar factory, Western Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross sectional study supplemented with clinical retrospective data, which included 452 study subjects was employed and the study period extended from May 2016 up to November of 2017. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess malaria risk factors and blood samples were received from all study participants and further subjected to Giemsa staining for determination of malaria prevalence. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20.Malaria risk factors were identified by multivariate logistic regression at significance level of P < 0.05 . Results: The overall malaria prevalence was 3.1%; Plasmodium vivax being the main type of malaria parasite. Overnight outdoor sleeping and improper utilization of mosquito bed nets were found to be statistically significant as malaria risk factors in the community. In the retrospective studies of five years, the peak malaria cases (13.84%) were reported in 2013 and less cases (1.24%) in 2017. Conclusion: The prevalence of malaria observed in the area is still higher as compared to national prevalence of malaria. Therefore; we recommend further strengthening of malaria prevention and control strategies. Additionally, educative training opportunities must be provided for workers in the plantation area on malaria prevention and control. Key words : Arjo Didhessa, malaria, malaria risk factors


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mebrate Dufera ◽  
Regea Debsu ◽  
Gemechu Tiruneh

Abstract Background: Although much progress has been made in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide in the last decade, nationally malaria still remains the third leading cause of death and still considered as major public health problem. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess malaria as a public health problem in and around sugar cane plantation area of Arjo Didhessa sugar factory, Western Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross sectional study supplemented with clinical retrospective data, which included 452 study subjects was recruited and the study period was extended from May 2016 up to November of 2017. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess malaria risk factors and blood samples were received from all study participants and further subjected to Giemsa staining for determination of malaria prevalence. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 20.Malaria risk factors were identified by multivariate logistic regression at significance level of P < 0.05 . Results: The overall malaria prevalence was 3.1%; Plasmodium vivax being the main type of malaria parasite. Overnight outdoor sleeping and improper utilization of mosquito bed nets were found to be statistically significant as malaria risk factors in the community. In the retrospective studies of five years, the peak malaria cases (13.84%) were reported in 2013 and lowest cases (1.24%) in 2017. Conclusions: The figure of malaria witnessed in this area remains higher than the observed national malaria prevalence indicating malaria is still remains a public health problem.Therefore, we suggest the factory administrators and health care professionals to work more on raising awareness to avoid night outdoor sleeping and effective and appropriate utilization of insecticide treated nets and regular indoor residual spraying. Key words : Arjo Didhessa, malaria, malaria risk factors


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mebrate Dufera ◽  
Regea Debsu ◽  
Gemechu Tiruneh

Abstract Background: Although much progress has been made in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide in the last decade, nationally malaria still remains the third leading cause of death and still considered as major public health problem. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess malaria as a public health problem in and around sugar cane plantation area of Arjo Didhessa sugar factory, Western Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross sectional study supplemented with clinical retrospective data, which included 452 study subjects was recruited and the study period was extended from May 2016 up to November of 2017. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess malaria risk factors and blood samples were received from all study participants and further subjected to Giemsa staining for determination of malaria prevalence. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 20.Malaria risk factors were identified by multivariate logistic regression at significance level of P < 0.05. Results: The overall malaria prevalence was 3.1%; Plasmodium vivax being the main type of malaria parasite. Overnight outdoor sleeping and improper utilization of mosquito bed nets were found to be statistically significant as malaria risk factors in the community. In the retrospective studies of five years, the peak malaria cases (13.84%) were reported in 2013 and lowest cases (1.24%) in 2017. Conclusions: The figure of malaria witnessed in this area remains higher than the observed national malaria prevalence indicating malaria is still remains a public health problem.Therefore, we suggest the factory administrators and health care professionals to work more on raising awareness to avoid night outdoor sleeping and effective and appropriate utilization of insecticide treated nets and regular indoor residual spraying. Key words: Arjo Didhessa, malaria, malaria risk factors


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mebrate Dufera ◽  
Regea Dabsu ◽  
Gemechu Tiruneh

Abstract Background: Although much progress has been made in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality worldwide in the last decade, nationally malaria remains the third leading cause of death and still considered a major public health problem. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess malaria as a public health problem in and around the sugar cane plantation area of Arjo Didhessa sugar factory, Western Ethiopia.Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study supplemented with clinical retrospective data, which included 452 study subjects was recruited and the study period was extended from May 2016 up to November of 2017. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess malaria risk factors and blood samples were received from all study participants and further subjected to Giemsa staining for determination of malaria prevalence. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 20. Malaria risk factors were identified by multivariate logistic regression at a significance level of P < 0.05.Results: The overall malaria prevalence was 3.1%; Plasmodium vivax is the main type of malaria parasite. Overnight outdoor sleeping and improper utilization of mosquito bed nets were found to be statistically significant as malaria risk factors in the community. In the retrospective studies of five years, the peak malaria cases (13.84%) were reported in 2013 and the lowest cases (1.24%) in 2017.Conclusions: The figure for malaria witnessed in this area remains higher than the observed national malaria prevalence indicating malaria remains a public health problem. Therefore, we suggest the factory administrators and health care professionals work more on raising awareness to avoid night outdoor sleeping and promote frequent and appropriate utilization of insecticide-treated nets in line with regular indoor residual spraying.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Husni Husni ◽  
Th. B Rahayujati ◽  
S Supargiyono

Evaluation of malaria risk factors prevention and control program in Kulon Progo RegencyPurposeThe purpose of this research was to evaluate the program of prevention and control of malaria risk factors in Kulon Progo District in 2016 based on system approach.MethodThis research was evaluation program used mixed methods (sequential explanatory design). Data collected from 7 public health center of active focus malaria and district health office. Respondents were program managers and head of public health center, district program managers, head of control and eradication of communicable diseases, and head of district health offices. The instruments used structured questionnaires and in-depth interview guides. Quantitative data analysis was descriptive and qualitative data used Miles and Huberman model.Results Most of the availability of human resources, funds, facilities, materials, and methods already meet implementation needs except entomologists, allocation of funds activities other than IRS, time of the implementation of larval fish deployment. Most of the processes that started from the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation have gone well except for planning other than IRS, preparation vector control without entomology database, implementation of environmental management, larviciding, and larval fish deployment. Coverage of LLINs, coverage of IRS, control of LLINs efficacy, and test of vector resistance have met the target, except coverage of larviciding and larval fish deployment was not available.ConclusionPrevention and control program of malaria risk factors has implemented but wasn’t based on entomological data. District health offices should recruit entomologist to support vector control activities.


2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Montosh Kumar Mondal ◽  
Beauty Rani Roy ◽  
Shibani Banik ◽  
Debabrata Banik

Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession . There is an increasing recognition that medication errors are causing a substantial global public health problem, as many result in harm to patients and increased costs to health providers.Anaesthesia is now safe and routine, yet anaesthetists are not immune from making medication errors and the consequences of their mistakes may be more serious than those of doctors in other specialties. Steps are being taken to determine the extent of the problem of medication error in anaesthesia. In this review, incidence, types, risk factors and preventive measures of the medication errors are discussed in detail.Journal of Bangladesh Society of Anaesthesiologists 2014; 27(1): 31-35


Author(s):  
Antonio Cláudio do Rego Coelho ◽  
Anna Klara Paim dos Anjos ◽  
Clerislene De Sousa Oliveira ◽  
Fábio Lucas da Cruz Viana ◽  
Maria Da Conceição Lisboa Dutra ◽  
...  

A dengue é um problema de saúde pública, acometendo especialmente os países tropicas e subtropicais. No Brasil, até meados de dezembro de 2012, o sistema nacional de vigilância da dengue havia registrado mais de 1,4 milhões de casos suspeitos. O artigo tem como objetivo, investigar a incidência dos casos de dengue no Brasil no período de 2007 a 2012, analisando, conforme o que consta na literatura, os fatores de risco que levam a um grande número de casos. O método de pesquisa consistiu na análise documental e exploratória do número de notificações de casos da dengue no período de 2007 a 2012 em todo território nacional através do banco de dados do SINAN. As informações foram apresentadas segundo Unidade da Federação e ano dos primeiros sintomas, considerando todas as notificações. Através do resultado obtido conclui-se que a maioria das notificações de casos ocorreu na região Sudeste, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste.Descritores: Dengue, Epidemiologia, Perfil Epidemiológico. Dengue in Brazil impact of the period 2007 to 2012Abstract: Dengue is a public health problem, especially affecting tropical and subtropical countries. In Brazil, by mid-December 2012, the national dengue surveillance system had recorded more than 1.4 million suspected cases. The objective of this article is to investigate the incidence of dengue cases in Brazil from 2007 to 2012, analyzing, according to the literature, the risk factors that lead to a large number of cases. The research method consisted of documental and exploratory analysis of the number of reports of dengue cases in the period from 2007 to 2012 throughout the national territory through the SINAN database. The information was presented according to the Federation Unit and year of the first symptoms, considering all the notifications. Through the obtained results it is concluded that the majority of cases reports occurred in the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest.Descriptors: Dengue, Epidemiology, Epidemiological Profile. Impacto del dengue en Brasil en período 2007 a 2012Resumen: El dengue es un problema de salud pública, afectando especialmente a los países tropicales y subtropicales. En Brasil, hasta mediados de diciembre de 2012, el sistema nacional de vigilancia del dengue había registrado más de 1,4 millones de casos sospechosos. El artículo tiene como objetivo, investigar la incidencia de los casos de dengue en Brasil en el período de 2007 a 2012, analizando, según lo que consta en la literatura, los factores de riesgo que llevan a un gran número de casos. El método de investigación consistió en el análisis documental y exploratorio del número de notificaciones de casos del dengue en el período de 2007 a 2012 en todo el territorio nacional a través de la base de datos del SINAN. Las informaciones fueron presentadas según Unidad de la Federación y año de los primeros síntomas, considerando todas las notificaciones. A través del resultado obtenido se concluye que la mayoría de las notificaciones de casos ocurrió en la región Sudeste, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste.Descriptores: Dengue, Epidemiología, Perfil Epidemiológico.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meilany Tangkilisan ◽  
Angle Sorisi ◽  
Josef S. B. Tuda

Abstract: The problem of public health, especially in developing coutries such as Indonesia, is based on the physical aspects such as health facilities, the treatment of disease, and non physical aspects related to the health problem. Malaria is still a public health problem because it often creates exrtraordinary events, which has great impact on quality on life and economy, and may result death. The main keys of reducing the incidence of malaria especially in high endemic areas are prevention and treatment. This study aimed to determine the role of health care facilities on the incidence of malaria in Silian Raya sub-district of Southheast Minahasa district. This was a descriptive survey study. The population was the community in Silian Raya sub-district of Southeast Minahasa district with total samples 194 respondents. The results showed that the counseling done by health workers was at the most 2 times (39.2%). Spraying insecticide by health workers was 1 time (41.8%). People that used the available health care facilities in Silian Raya sub-district, the health center, were 51.0%.Keywords: malaria, prevention, treatmentAbstrak: Masalah kesehatan masyarakat terutama di negara-negara berkembang seperti Indonesia didasarkan pada, aspek fisik seperti sarana kesehatan dan pengobatan penyakit, dan aspek non fisik yang menyangkut masalah kesehatan.Malaria masih merupakan masalah kesehatan masyarakat karena sering menimbulkan Kejadian Luar Biasa (KLB), berdampak luas terhadap kualitas hidup dan ekonomi, serta dapat mengakibatkan kematian. Dalam upaya mengurangi angka kejadian malaria terutama di daerah endemis tinggi, upaya pencegahan dan pengobatan merupakan kunci utama. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui peran sarana pelayanan kesehatan terhadap kejadian malaria di Kecamatan Silian Raya Kabupaten Minahasa Tenggara. Jenis penelitian ini adalah survey yang bersifat deskriptif. Populasi penelitian adalah masyarakat di Kecamatan Silian Raya Kabupaten Minahasa Tenggara dengan jumlah sampel 194 responden. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan penyuluhan yang dilakukan oleh tenaga kesehatan tertinggi 2 kali (39,2%). Penyemprotan insektisida oleh tenaga kesehatan tertinggi 1 kali (41,8%) dan masyarakat yang langsung memanfaatkan sarana pelayanan kesehatan yang tersedia di Kecamatan Silian Raya yaitu Puskesmas (51,0%).Kata kunci: malaria, pencegahan, pengobatan


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