Healthy Environment

To assess the environmental situation and the measures taken to create a healthy environment has been selected four indicators, namely the percentage of families who have access to clean water, a healthy percentage of the home, families with basic sanitation facilities ownership, Public Places and Food Processing (TUPM).

Several attempts to minimize the risk of decline in environmental quality have been implemented by various agencies such as the construction of basic sanitation, monitoring and environment management, measurement and control of environmental quality.

Construction of basic sanitation for communities that are directly related to health problems including the provision of clean water, latrines healthy, healthy housing is usually handled across sectors. Meanwhile, the Tangerang District Health Office Supervisory activities undertaken include drinking water quality monitoring, monitoring of hospital sanitation, supervision and monitoring of sanitation in public places (hotels, Terminal), where food processing, pesticide treatment facilities and so forth.

In monitoring the implementation of environmental health programs can be seen by some environmental health indicators are as follows:

1. Net Water Use

For the year 2007 the number of families who checked who have access to clean water 72.35%. From the results of sanitary inspection officer at the health center use of clean water every family the most highest is +34.99% dug wells, hand pump wells tap +18.59 +31.86%.

2. Health House

For most people, home is a gathering place for all members of the family and spent most of his time, so that the health condition of the housing may act as a medium of disease transmission among family members or neighbors.

In the year 2007 has been conducted in 40 healthy home inspection center in kab.Tangerang region, from the houses, the sanitary inspection 560 426 68.34% otherwise healthy.

From existing data, the program of socialization of the community to build healthy homes need to continue to do so to prevent the development of disease vectors can be reduced, so too the causes of other diseases around the house.

3. Families With Basic Sanitation Facilities Ownership.

Families with ownership of basic sanitation facilities including water supply, latrine ownership of the family, trash and waste water management, this whole family is very important in improving environmental health.

4. Public Places and Food Processing (TUPM)

Food, including beverages, is a basic requirement and a major source for human life, but food that is not managed well it will be a very effective medium of disease transmission in the digestive tract (Food Borne Deseases). The occurrence of acute poisoning and the spread of disease which often leads to death many sourced from food derived from food processing (TPM) especially catering service, restaurant and snack foods that their management does not meet health requirements or environmental sanitation.