Kontak langsung dengan sampah dapat berisiko mengalami gangguan kesehatan. Volu-me sampah dipengaruhi oleh jumlah penduduk, aktivitas, dan gaya hidup. Pemerintah daerah memberlakukan berbagai kebijakan untuk mengatasi permasalahan sampah sebagai bentuk tanggung jawab pelayanan publik. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui permasalahan sampah dan upaya penanganan di Kota Yogyakarta. Metode penelitian adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengambilan sampel dengan cara purposive sampling. Informan merupakan stakeholder pengelolaan sampah di Yogyakarta. Data diolah dan disajikan dengan metode explanation building. Sampah di TPA Piyungan tertinggi pada Maret 2014 dan terendah pada Juli 2014. Kota Yogyakarta penyumbang sampah terbanyak di TPA Piyungan, kemudian Kabupaten Sleman dan Bantul. Volume sampah tertinggi pada 2012 dan terus menurun sampai tahun 2014. Semua permasalahan ada dari sisi hilir (masyarakat), proses (pengelola sampah) dan hulu (TPA). Setelah semua diidentifikasi, dibuat suatu kebijakan pengelolaan sampah secara optimal dengan melibatkan semua lintas sektoral dan program-program pemberdayaan oleh stakeholder terkait.<p>Direct contact with the waste can be increasing health problems risk. The volume of waste is affected by population, population activities, and lifestyle. Government enforces many policy in order to address the waste problems. The purpose of this study was to find out the waste problem in the Yogyakarta Municipality and to know the strategy to handling it. Qualiative study was applied in this research. The informant was a delegation of stakeholder regarding waste management, with purposive sampling. Analysis data were performed by using explanantion building using content analysis. The highest number of waste was produced on March 2014 and the lowest on July 2014.. In Yogyakarta municipality,  TPA Piyungan gave biggest waste contribution. . The peak of waste volume was in 2012 and tend to decrease until 2014. All the waste problems started from the downstream (community) , process (government who manage waste) and upstream (TPA). All problem were identified and government made a policy about manage waste that involved all sectoral empowering program by stakeholder on waste management.</p>

Rainwater is the main source of drinking water in tropical communities, especially in West Kalimantan. Air contamination causes rainwater to become acidic and cloudy and adds heavy metals such as Pb into rainwater. In addition to pollution, the way in which the rainwater is collected such as through zinc roofing also exposes the rainwater to heavy metals. The presence of Pb in rainwater will have an impact on the health of the community in the long run. The model of simple water treatment using filtration is needed to overcome this problem with the use of media available in the region. The media used are in the form of mollusk sand and activated carbon. In the end, the mollusk sand filtration model and activated carbon sorption were effectively used to filter polluted rainwater to be safe for consumption.

AbstrakSampah berpotensi menciptakan masalah kesehatan lingkungan. Pemerintah mengupayakan berbagai kebijakan pengelolaan sampah seperti pelayanan sampah dan memberdayakan masyarakat untuk mengelola sampah secara mandiri. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui kebijakan pemerintah dalam mengelola sampah domestik di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY), perubahan kualitas lingkungan dan masyarakat akibat kebijakan pengelolaan sampah, dan untuk mengetahui metode pemantauan dan pengelolaan sampah yang ada di DIY. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan rancangan studi kasus. Fenomena yang menjadi studi dalam penelitian ini adalah kebijakan pengelolaan sampah di DIY. Permasalahan sampah yang ada di DIY adalah cakupan pelayanan pemerintah kabupaten yang masih sangat rendah, kecuali Kota Yogyakarta (90%). Sampah terangkut ke tempat pembuangan akhir masih rendah dibandingkan volume sampah yang dihasilkan. Kebijakan untuk pengelolaan sampah adalah di seluruh kabupaten/kota DIY telah terbentuk badan/unit yang bertanggung jawab mengelola sampah. Perubahan kualitas lingkungan dan masyarakat adalah lingkungan dan jalan menjadi bersih, asri, dan nyaman. Metode pemantauan dan evaluasi kebijakan pengelolaan sampah di DIY belum dituangkan dalam prosedur baku. Permasalahan sampah sudah menjadi perhatian bagi pemerintah daerah DIY. Kebijakan telah didukung dengan program layanan, proyek, regulasi, dan insentif khusus untuk pengelolaan sampah.Kata kunci: Kebijakan, pemerintah daerah, sampah Abstract Waste had great potential in creating environmental health issues. The government had tried various ways of waste management policy such as waste management services and people empowerment to manage their waste independently. The objectives of this study is to observe the problem of garbage in the Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY), the Government's policy in managing domestic waste in DIY, the changes in environmental Kebijakan Pemerintah dalam Pengelolaan Sampah Domestik Government Policy in Domestic Waste ManagementSurahma Asti Mulasari* Adi Heru Husodo** Noeng Muhadjir*** quality and community impact of the waste management, and the methods of monitoring and managing waste in DIY. This research was a qualitative case study design. The phenomenon in this research was the waste management policy in DIY. Waste problem in the province DIY was the district service coverage which was still very low, except for the city of Yogyakarta (90%). The waste transported to landfill was still low compared to the volume of waste generated. The policy in DIY for waste management was that in all districts/cities in DIY there had been units formed, responsible for managing waste. The changes in the quality of environment and community were that the environment and roads are getting clean, beautiful, and comfortable. The methods for monitoring and evaluation of waste management policy in the province had not been set forth in the standard procedure. Waste problem had been a concern for local government of DIY. The policy had been supported by the se...

Electroplating workers are using chromium during the working process. Clinical and laboratory evidence indicates that exposure of chromium is very toxic if it is inhaled and can lead to oxidative DNA damage. This study was aimed to investigate factors associated to the urinary 8 -OHdG levels as a biomarker of oxidative DNA damage. Sixty six subjects from electroplating home industry in Tegal, Central Java were included. Urinary chromium levels were determined using AAS. The urinary 8-OHdG level as oxidative DNA damage was measured using ELISA. The levels of chromium in all sample were higher than the normal range (median 11.77 μg/ L), the median of urinary 8-OHdG level was 23.83 ng/ml. Eventhough, age and urinary chromium level were not associated with urinary 8-OHdG's levels, there was a significant association between the period of works and the type of jobs to the urinary 8 -OHdG levels.

Hospital food hygiene plays an important role to patient's health. Studies proved that improper practices and lack of knowledge are contributing factors of foodborne diseases. This study was conducted to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of hospital safe food handling in Semarang, Central Java. A cross sectional study was conducted in two general hospitals' kitchen. Data were collected from 60 food handlers through validated questionnaire. Respondents were grouped into two categories: a. Teaching Hospital, and b.Non-teaching Hospital. Data were collected in February-April 2017. Most of food handlers (80%) were graduated from vocational senior high school (SMK). Respondent's age were 28-37 years (36.7%) in average. Most of respondent‟s work experience (85%) was less than 15 years. The result showed that more than 80% of food handlers have good knowledge in safe food handling procedures, good attitude (66%) and good practices (90%). There was no significant difference of knowledge, attitude and practices between two groups. Results strongly emphasize the need of food hygiene training of hospital food handlers. It also suggest that non food handlers such as nurse or kitchen supervisor should involved in the training. Some aspects of food handlers' safety behavior need to be emphasized.

Nitrate concentration in well water in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and its surroundings tended to increase rapidly from time to time, and it may be associated with an elevated risk for several types of cancer. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between nitrate in drinking water and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk occurrence. A case-control study was conducted in Yogyakarta Special Province. Pathologically confirmed 75 CRC patients and 75 controls were consulted and their individual well water was sampled and examined for nitrate concentrations. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to establish the association between nitrate and CRC risk development. There was a significant correlation between nitrate in drinking water and CRC occurrence, and this value was relatively stable after being adjusted for protein intake, smoking history, age, and family history of cancer. These findings demonstrated that the risk of CRC development was fourfold among those with >10 years of nitrate exposure from well water compared with those with ≤10 years of nitrate exposure. Consequently, a significant association between nitrate in drinking water and occurrence of CRC in Yogyakarta was established.

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