Factors toward Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Occurrence in Patte'ne Village, North Wara District, Palopo City Bachtiar Sari Puspa1, Arsin H.A. Arusnan1, Arsyad Dian Sidik1 1Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia Online published on 19 August, 2019. Abstract Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is transmission disease through mosquitoes bites from genus Aedes especially Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus. This study aimed to determine the relationship between civil service efforts, hanging clothes habit, insect repellent usage, water reservoirs potential for mosquitoes breeding and abate powder usage in Patte'ne village, North Wara district, Palopo city. The study was used analytic observational with cross sectional study design. The study population were all household resided in Patte'ne village which total of 745. The study samples were head of the family. The samples were used proportional random sampling with samples of 254 households. The result showed that there was relationship between hanging clothes habit, mosquitoes repellent usage, outside water reservoirs potential for mosquitoes breeding, resting places inside the house existence and abate powder usage with DHF occurrence in Patte'ne village, North Wara district. Meanwhile, there were no relationship between civil service efforts, inside water reservoirs potential for mosquitoes breeding and resting places outside the house with DHF occurrence in Patte'ne village, North Wara district. Health agencies is recommended to provide counselling on 3M implementation to raise awareness in important of community participation in dengue prevention. Top Keywords Dengue haemorrhagic fever, abate powder, civil service, mosquitoes. Top |