The program for routine insecticide-treated bed nets is one of the government's efforts to reduce malaria morbidity. The research objective was to describe the effectiveness of the routine insecticide-treated bednet distribution program in the context of reducing malaria morbidity in Oesapa Health Center, Kelapa Lima District, Kupang City in 2018. Descriptive survey research with a qualitative approach. Informants in this study amounted to 3 people and 65 families as observation samples. The research instrument uses interview guidelines. The results of the study show 1) Input; health workers and facilities were limited (cars and motorbikes), particularly in distributing the nets to pregnant women, infants, children under five, and children. 2) Process; The program was planned by The Health Office of Kupang City while implementation and evaluation was taken by health workers from Oesapa Health Center. Barriers were related to low accessibility in reaching the targeted house in need, inadequate number of health staff, and unavailability of special facility needed to distribute the nets 3) Output; A total of 188 nets was distributed to the target according to the program goal. Based on observations from 65 households that became the study sample, 63 households used and treated kalambu with insecticides until 2019. The distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets was considered ineffective. Health workers and facilities need to be provided adequately to distribute the nets and monitoring is necessary to guarantee the distribution reaching the target.
The integrated healthcare center is a form of community-based health effort for monitoring the health and growth of toddlers as a strategy to reduce health problems, especially the toddler mortality rate. Mother’s behavior to visit integrated healthcare center is influenced by various factors. This study aims to analyze the factors related to the visit of children under five. This is an analytical study with a cross-sectional study design. This research was conducted in two integrated healthcare centers in Obesi Village in March 2020. The population of this study is 123 mothers. The sample size in this study was calculated using the Slovin formula obtained 95 mothers. Then sample calculation for each integrated healthcare center was carried out using the proportional simple random sampling formula. The data were collected using questionnaires and then analyzed using the chi-square test with a confidence level of 95% % . The results showed that maternal knowledge (p-value = 1,000), maternal attitude (p-value = 1,000), maternal occupation (p-value = 0,475), attitude of health workers (p-value = 1,000) are not related to the visits of children under five. But integrated healthcare center distance (p-value = 0,012) and husband’s support are related to the visits of children under five 2019 (p-value = 0,019). This study shows that the visits of children under five to integrated healthcare center is influenced by various factors, therefore it is recommended to the community and various related parties to support mothers of children under five in making visits to the integrated healthcare center.
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