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- Assessing Local Issues Related to Drug Used Behavior among Students in Makassar
Authors
1 Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, ID
Source
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, Vol 10, No 11 (2019), Pagination: 2258-2262Abstract
Out of 100 students there are 4 students who have been using drugs, three students are using drugs in the past year, and 2-3 students in the past month. The first time using drugs appears to be getting younger from year to year(1).A school-based program for young people are more effective, because most of the students spend their time in school. A local issues related to drug-used among students became a crucial to considered in developing prevention program for young people. Three FGD among students and stakeholders performed in this study to gathered an information about drug-used behavior among youth.
Findings of this study shows that being popular in school is one motif to doing bullying and harassment in school. Calling friend with his/her fathers name became a beginning of bullying. Consuming drugs, like analgesic is a common situation among youth in school. Even thereis a punishment in school, not every student could be in a teacher supervision. However, most student choose to be good in academic rather than popular. Popular students identic with negative attitude, image and social life.A prevention program for youth in school should be suitable for young people and accommodate an update and local issue associated to their behavior including using drugs not for medical purpose.
Keywords
Drug-Used, Student,local.
- Multimorbidity Increases the Risk of Falling among Indonesian Elderly Living in Community Dwelling and Elderly Home : A Cross Sectional Study
Authors
1 University of Indonesia, ID
2 Department of Research & Innovation, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, ZA
3 HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, ZA
Source
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, Vol 10, No 11 (2019), Pagination: 2263-2267Abstract
The prevalence of fall increases with increasing ages. Falling is significant health problem in elderlyand the risk increases significantly when they have chronic diseases such as, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic problem, urogenital diseases, digestive diseases, respiratory diseases, musculoskeletal and malignant diseases. elderly also vulnerable on suffering multiple chronic illness. This study aimed to identify the influence of multimorbidity to the incidence of fall in elderly.
A cross sectional approach was used for this research, and, based on simple random sampling, a total of 427 elderly individuals (>60 years old). The data collection was based on the use of one set of questionnaires consisting of the demographic characteristics (age, gender, education background and economic status), the list of fifteen common chronic illness including suffered by the elderly as the risk factor for fall, and the incidence of fall within the las 12 month as the outcome.
This study demonstrated that fall incidence among the elderly is significantly linked to the presence of chronic illness. The number of chronic conditions is significantly influencing the incidence of fall among elderly. The elderly who have more than two of chronic illness likely to have fall 2 times higher that those who have less than two chronic illness.