Introduction: According to the World Health Organization, there are 2.3 million breast cancer diagnoses and globally 685,000 breast cancer mortality rates. In 2020 women who have had problems with breast cancer are 7.8 million annually worldwide. A study by the Global International Agency for Research of Cancer (2018) reported that the highest number of breast cancer cases was 674,693, with 25.5% and a mortality rate of 310.577 or 13.8%. And continues to be published by the Global Cancer Observatory (2019), showing that the incidence of breast cancer is 136.2% of the population, and the highest rate of breast cancer occurs in women with 42.1%, followed by population mortality. Objective: To find out how to detect breast cancer in adolescent girls in Covalima City, Timor Leste. Method: This study used quantitative and quantitative methods together, specifically a cross-sectional study of adolescent girls in the municipality of Covalima where interviews with young girls continued their studies in secondary schools. Results: Based on the results of research conducted by young women in high schools in the city, the understanding of describing early detection of breast cancer is 49%, and most young women know information about breast cancer even though the information they have is accessed or someone shares about breast cancer. Conclusion: Students have sufficient experience in how to detect breast cancer early and prevent breast cancer
Introduction: Hypertension is a serious problem in public health programs that affects individual health, and can affect the body and kill people. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is blood pressure that is higher than normal. Blood pressure changes throughout the day based on your activity. Having a blood pressure measurement consistently above normal can lead to a diagnosis of high blood pressure or hypertension. Hypertension is known as a killer disease and a heterogeneous group of diseases. The ministry of health of timor leste, stated that the incidence of hypertension was 41.66% and cases of death were 27% of hospitalized patients. Method: this study used quantitative and quantitative methods together, in particular a prospective population study in the municipality of baucau where interviews with the head of the family or someone else takes the responsibility. Results and discussion: the results of data analysis using pearson product moment with p-value 0.000 <0.05 is a stress factor that affects the cause of hypertension. Also salt consumption is 0.741 between the interval coefficients 0.60 - 0.799 classified as severe hypertension). Other tests also showed that alcohol consumption had an effect on the incidence of hypertension because the p-value was 0.466 > 0.05. Conclusion: based on the results of data analysis, stress factors, salt and alcohol consumption have an effect on the incidence of hypertension in the people of baucau city, timor leste
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