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Spirit of Neighbourliness Influence, lifestyle practice and Government
Role towards level of the people's health Especially Aspect
Dengue Fever
Nuramalina binti Nordin
Supervisor: Dr. Zikri Muhammad
Bachelor of Management (Policy and Social Environment)
School of Social and Economic Development
Dengue is disease brought by Aedes mosquito. There are two types of Aedes
mosquitoes namely Aegypty aedes mosquito and Albopictus aedes mosquito. Disease
Vector-borne under Health Ministry disease control section Malaysia drafted to reduce
the burden and death result dengue fever disease transmission (Strategy plan for
Control and Prevention Dengue in year 2009-2013). Dengue epidemic infection if not
controlled, can cause the occurrence of public health system failure from implement
response efficiently and effectively and will cause various infectious new disease.
According to Dr. Mohd Khairi bin Yakub (2014), in Health Department website Johore
State based on weekly statistics on 3 August 2014, a total of 109 cases of dengue
had been reported. Based on statistics aspect, 9 districts in Johore State had reported
Dengue Demam case in Health Department Johore State. Inter districts that had been
reported, Johor Bahru is largest contributor namely totalled 65% compared to Kluang
11%, Batu Pahat 10%, Kulaijaya 6%, Ledang 3%, and Segamat, Pontian, Mersing
only recording 1%. Study issue to see how much lifestyle practice and government
role in influencing level of the people's health from dengue fever aspect. Objective
in this study to assess relationship between spirit of neighbourliness influence,
lifestyle practice influence, and government role towards level of the people's health
in Taman Universiti especially dengue fever. A quantitative shaped study method was
used as the analysis in this study. Next, a survey also was conductedthrough
questionnaires on 50 respondents which consist of people in areas around
Taman Universiti randomly chosen as research respondent. This area selected
because be cases of dengue which occurred in the area said. This study find
out that there is relationship that significant between lifestyle practice [F (1,48)=
6.458, p= .05], government role [F (1,48)=3.256, p= .05] with level of the people'
health in Taman Universiti. Thus, this study explained the level of the people’s health
especially dengue fever aspect.
Keywords: Aedes mosquitoes type, spirit of neighbourliness, lifestyle practice,
government role in tackling spread towards level of the people's health especially
dengue fever.
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