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Harbor is a facility where the traffic activity of the passengers and goods
brought by ships takes place. The ships can bring diseases in and out through seaport
environment with vector.Preliminary survey of 20 ship that are observed there are
13 ships (65%) identified cockroach vector.
The purpose of this survey study with cross-sectional design was to analyze
the influence of risk factor of the condition of environmental sanitation of the
compartments on board such as deck, crew room, toilet, galley and food storage, on
the existence of disease vector on the ships at Tembilahan harbor. The population of
this study was all of the ships mooring at Tembilahan harbor and 54 cargo ships
were selected to be the samples for this study. Primary data for this study were
obtained through direct observation on-board, while the secondary data were
obtained from the KKP Tembilahan. analyze data using logistic regression.
The result of this study showed that there was influence the highest risk factor
was found in the galley and toilet. Variable toilet gived most impact on the existence
of disease vector, which is variable toilet had a chance againt of existence of disease
vector 5,5 times.
The management of KKP Tembilahan is suggested to improve the surveillance
of risk factor, to do educative approach on healthy harbor environment and means of
transportation, and to take decisive action against the ships at risk and vector was
found on-board. The crews and the captain of the ship should always keep the
condition on-board based on health criteria. The stakeholders and related agencies
at the harbor should support the KKP tasks in an effort to prevent infectious disease
with epidemic potential that can inflict health risk to the people in the region or in the
country in general.