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ABSTRACT
Overview of Environmental Quality Physical Home smear positive pulmonary
tuberculosis patients at Desa Pasar Lapan Dusun II Kelurahan Indrapura
Kecamatan Air Putih Kabupaten Batu Bara Provinsi Sumatera Utara in 2016
Based Data World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007 stated the number of
tuberculosis patients in Indonesia around 528 thousand or be in the top three in the
world after India and China. WHO report in 2009, Indonesia ranked noted decreased
to fifth by the number of tuberculosis patients by 429 thousand people. The five
countries with the largest number of incident cases in 2009 were India, China, South
Africa, Nigeria and Indonesia (WHO, 2010). In 2010 the prevalence of pulmonary
tuberculosis based on the diagnosis of 725 per 100,000 population in Indonesia.
The general objective of this study was to determine the image quality To
check the Physical Environment Overview Home smear positive pulmonary
tuberculosis patients at Desa Pasar Lapan Dusun II Kelurahan Indrapura
Kecamatan Air Putih Kabupaten Batu Bara Provinsi Sumatera Utara in 2016. Type
study is a descriptive survey quantitative, is a study to look at the problem of the
phenomenon that occurs in the community in the form of picture Environmental
Quality Physical Home Patients TB BTA Positive at Desa Pasar Lapan Dusun II
Kelurahan Indrapura Kecamatan Air Putih Kabupaten Batu Bara Provinsi Sumatera
Utara in 2016. The results showed that the quality of the physical environment of the
house associated with the incidence of pulmonary TB BTA (+). Therefore to reduce
the risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, in order to repair the condition of the
home environment and to reduce the humidity of the room, preferably the bedroom
part
of
the
roof
wearing
glass
tile
so
that
the
sun
can
get
in.
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