Ammonia Exposure Among Citizen Living Surrounding Fertilizer Factory

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ammonia, fertilizer, factory

Abstract

Air pollution remains problem around the world. One of dangerous chemical substance is ammonia. Fertilizer factory emission is ammonia that could affect to people health. The purpose of this study was to describe ammonia effect to health among citizen living surrounding fertilizer factory.Methods: This study used cross sectional design. The population in this study was all people living surrounding Fertilizer factory with 300 meters, 800 meters and 2600 meter radius from the factory. The sample in this study was 130 samples. The data analysis was analyzed with univariate. Results: This study found that everyone living them ever had ammonia effect symptom at least two of symptoms, the highest number symptoms was dizzy and cough. The symptoms obtained consist of cough, nasal irritation, hard to breath, throat irritation, sluggish, dizziness, loss of appetite and itchy eyes. Conclusion: supplementation for people living surrounding factory fertilizer should be conducted to prevent more severity of ammonia.

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© 2020, 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  - Achmad Fickry Faisyah
AU  - Yustini Ardillah
AU  - Dini Arista Putri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/19
TI  - Ammonia Exposure Among Citizen Living Surrounding Fertilizer Factory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Sriwijaya International Conference of Public Health (SICPH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 155
EP  - 158
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.020
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.020
ID  - Faisyah2020
ER  -