COMMUNICATION MEDIA LITERATURE IN HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN HANDLING THE HAZARDS OF DHF IN GAMBUT DISTRICT

Abstract

Recent technological advances are very strategic and very significant in the interactions in the midst of our people's lives, including public health, which is even more crucial, because of that the government is very concerned about public health, if public health is good, it will support the economic life of the community itself, So that awareness of the importance of health within the community in the Peat district is the main thing to be put forward, given that the recent rainy season has caused a lot of standing water which is not impossible to cause dengue fever. Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease that spreads rapidly, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. DHF can be transmitted quickly because the dengue virus is transferred by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes into the human body. The cause of the inadequate DHF control program is that there is no mapping related to dengue susceptible areas. Communication media is inevitable for health, especially in health management in handling the dangers of dengue fever in Peat District, considering that communication media is an element of communication that can be used to convey health information to the public about the dangers of dengue fever itself. The research methodology that the author uses is descriptive qualitative methodology with a qualitative judgment approach to provide a literacy description of communication media in health management and the dangers of dengue fever for the community. The results of this study are expected to be useful for the government, especially the management of health management in using communication media in handling the dangers of dengue fever itself.