Tindakan Promotif Kesehatan Untuk Mengurangi Kasus Penyakit Degeneratif dengan Pemanfaatan Buah-Buahaan di Desa Bengle, Kecamatan Majalaya, Kabupaten Karawang

Abstract

Public health improvement facilities can be done through promotional, preventive, curative and rehabilitative activities. Promotive is a series of efforts to provide a learning experience for individuals, families, and communities to influence behavior, in order to maintain, and improve health. Promotional activities can be carried out in the form of counseling to the community with the aim of increasing knowledge. This research aims to provide information to the public related to the prevention of degenerative diseases by eating fruits in Bengle Village. The methods used are in the form of lectures, questions and answers, as well as measuring the improvement of public knowledge through questionnaires given before and after counseling. Samples from this study are residents and officers of Bengle Village, Karawang Regency. The result of this study is the public's knowledge of degenerative diseases judging by the value of pretest and posttest and statistically tested also seen quite significant p value of 0.001 < 0.05.