Adherence in consuming antibiotics prescribed by doctors is significantly important to achieve optimal therapeutic effect along with prevent antibitotics resistance. One of the diseases that require antibiotics for treatment is Acute Respiratory Tract Infection. Based on the Pekanbaru City Health Service report 2020 Simpang Tiga Public Health Center, Payung Sekaki Public Health Center, Garu…
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global health problem due to its potential development into life-threatening liver disease. The development of HBV infection can be influenced by one of the immune components, Vitamin D. The active form of vitamin D can modulate the immune response by binding to the vitamin D receptor (VDR). The vitamin D receptor is encoded by the VDR gene, which has…
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 can occur through droplets. One of the complications that often occurs in Covid-19 patients is ARDS. ARDS is an acute respiratory disorder with noncardiogenic pulmonary edema manifested as rapidly progressive dyspnea, tachypnea, and hypoxemia and an increase in the permea…
Hepatitis B is still the one of public health problems in the world including in Indonesia. The most at risk group to hepatitis B virus exposure are healthcare workers. Healthcare workers who had the highest prevalence of hepatitis B virus exposure are clinical laboratory analysts. The best way to prevent hepatitis B infection is by getting vaccination. Therefore, healthcare workers, especi…
Air pollution is a combination of particles and gases that can be harmful to human and environment. The respiratory tract is the main door for air pollution to enter the body. The increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases due to air pollution is influenced by the behavior or attitudes of individuals related to their health which is determined by the individual's own perception. The …
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infection disease in humans and animals caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Symptoms experienced by COVID-19 patients can be in the form of systemic symptoms, respiratory symptoms, and digestive symptoms where the most common symptoms are fever, dry cough, and fatigue that appear after an incubat…
Central obesity is a risk factor for various diseases, for example hypertension, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer. Central obesity criteria in Indonesia follow the Asia Pacific criteria, namely waist circumference 90 cm in men and 80 cm in women. The prevalence of central obesity in Indonesia continues to increase from 26.6% in 2013 to 31% in 2018. One of the fac…
The comprehensive station is a special station program that is held to improve the preparation of students in participating in UKMPPD. Learning at the comprehensive stage has been carried out previously and has several obstacles, namely: limited time and the availability of independent learning that does not yet exist. This study aims to determine the acceptance of the use of an interactive…
Gunshot wounds are caused by the penetration of the bullet into the body. Gunshot wounds are linked to criminal cases of using a firearm to injure or kill someone. The purpose of this study was to determine the profile of cases of death due to gunshot wounds examined at Bhayangkara Hospital Pekanbaru for the 2018-2020 period. The research method used is retrospective descriptive using seco…
Lung abscess is infection to the pulmonary parenchyma caused by a bacterial that results in damage and supuration to lung tissue. Abcesses in the lungs are generally caused by aspiration pneumonia, necrosis, and bacterial infections. The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of lung abscess patients hospitalized at arifin achmad hospital in 2016-2020. This type of research…
Skin is a special organ in human body that have function for maintain human health. One of skin’s function is to protect human by physical barriers, biomolecules and skin pH. Normal skin has an acidic pH, with pH value of 4,1-5,8. Increase of pH value can causing pathogenic microorganism growth. At the pH value 6 there is an increase of Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) which is contrib…
HPV infection in men shows a lack of visible penile lesions, this has led to the need to seek more sensitive and specific diagnostic methods for detecting HPV in men. A trusted diagnostic approach for men is HPV DNA testing. To ensure appropriate sampling, the presence of human DNA from the smear was assessed by PCR detection of the β-globin gene, the success of the formation of the PCR p…
A prisoner is a suspect who is undergoing a criminal period, serving a criminal period does not mean that the prisoner loses all his rights. Prisoners' rights have been regulated in Government Regulation No. 58/1999, one of which is health insurance. The purpose of this study was to determine how the role of the medical and health sectors of the Riau regional police in fulfilling the health…
Forensic identification is an effort made to determine the identity of a person or corpse by matching data obtained from antemortem data. One thing that is needed in the forensic identification process is determining height. Estimation of height can be determined by long bones of the body, one of which is medial phalanx bone of the fingers. This research was conducted in Riau Province with …
Scabies is a skin infection caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiesi var. Hominis. According to data from Pekanbaru City Health Office, there were 29 cases of infectious and parasitic diseases in 2019 and an increase to 155 cases happened by the year 2020. The high incidence rate was due to the increased risk of disease transmission in densely populated residential areas, high poverty rate and…
Cervical cancer is cancer that occurs in the uterine cervix, an area which is the entrance to the uterus that located between the uterus and the vagina. The main risk factor driving the development of cervical cancer is persistent infection with hrHPV. Screening for cervical cancer is necessary to prevent cervical cancer. Among several cervical cancer screening techniques, the HPV DNA ident…
The most common dental and oral health problems encountered, especially in Indonesia, are dental caries in children. In this case, the behavior of maintaining dental and oral health is determined by good knowledge for the formation of action and is supported by a positive attitude. The purpose of this study was to describe the knowledge, attitudes and actions as well as to determine the den…
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that is multifactorial and has varied clinical manifestations. Duration of untreated psychosis refers to the period from which a patient first experiences psychotic symptoms until the patient has received antipsychotic treatment. Patients often experience delays in treatment which is believed to affect the severity of symptoms of schizophrenia pati…
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of reality (delusions and hallucinations). Duration of untreated psychosis refers to the period from the onset of the first psychotic symptoms to the initiation of adequate treatment. This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between duration of untreated psychosis and the rehospitalizations in…
Visum et Repertum (VeR) is a written medical statement made by a doctor on the basis of a request from the police or investigators and to prove a patient suspected of being a victim of a crime, medical examinations are carried out on humans, living or dead or on parts of the human body. In this case, the findings of the medical examination are recorded and interpreted in writing, under oath…