E.Elsa Herdiana M
Malaria has been becoming a reemerging disease since 1980 in Menoreh Hill, Central Java, Indonesia. One of many villages located in this hill is Girimulyo village (HCI area). The epidemiology of malaria is very complex, which involve some factors such as: the parasit, the vector (Anopheline mosquito), the host and the environment. Some behaviors and environmental factors specific for this village are suspected influencing malaria incidence there. The aim of this study is to correlate between some environmental and behavior risk factors and malaria incidence. The result will be important to plan malaria control in this area. This study applied quantitative and crosssectional method. Samples were all patients with fever (172 patients) who went to Girimulyo Public Health Center during April-August 2001. All are given questionnaire and the malaria diagnostic were made under microscope (86 were malaria positive). There were no significant correlation (p>0,005) between the outdoor activity at night; such as social activity (OR= 0.865), go to the work place /market (OR=1,16), search water (OR=3,7) and other activity at river (OR=1,406), and significant correlation (p<0,005) between the use of screened house (OR=6,851), mosquito coil (OR= 4,068) and repellent (OR= 3,968) with malaria incidence. There were also significant correlation (p<0,005) between the location of the house: near rice field (OR=4) or forest (OR=5) and there were no significant correlation with drainage (OR=2,103), man made water storage (OR=0,917) and animal cages (OR=2,103). It was concluded that some specific environmental and behavior risk factors were correlated with malaria incidence in Girimulyo village.