The Importance of Health Education and Environmental Hygiene Practices in Overcoming Children Diarrhea: What Does Healthcare Professionals Need to Know?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210525.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

public health, healthcare, diarrhea, nurses, children

Abstract

Health services are essential in improving the quality of children’s health during the growth period, where the child always interacts with the environment so that there is exposure to either virus or bacterial diseases that can cause diarrhea. Meanwhile, health problems in the child are indeed not separate from the lack of food and not the cleanliness of the environmental hygiene of children’s residence. The purpose of this study is to explain the importance of the role of professional health officers in addressing the health of children suffering from diarrhea due to food contamination and lack of parental supervision in providing adequate nutritional intake in children during the period of growth. The research methodology used a quantitative method with non-probability sampling techniques; the goal is to find out the role of the professional health workforce in addressing the problem of diarrhea hazards occurring in children. The Result of the study shows that 42.7% of respondents with diarrhea are accompanied by dehydration; this is due to the parents’ cannot control the cleanliness of food and nutrition. Hence, the occurrence of diarrhea in children due to the gross environmental sanitation factor. By the finding of this study, to reduce the prevalence of diarrhea in children who are found in rural areas, parents’ participation and professional health care professionals are needed by all communities in addressing the problems of stomach disorders in children causing diarrhea to inhibit the growth of children’s health.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chairun Nasirin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/26
TI  - The Importance of Health Education and Environmental Hygiene Practices in Overcoming Children Diarrhea: What Does Healthcare Professionals Need to Know?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Education and Social Science (ACCESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 5
EP  - 8
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210525.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210525.035
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