| dc.description.abstract | Tuberculosis (TB) nowadays still becomes one of the world’s deadliest
communicable disease. More than half were in South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions,
including Indonesia. As developing country, Indonesia remains classic problems in
overcoming TB, that is discontinuation on treatment. Most of discontinuation on treatment
among TB patients are affected by diagnostic delay that caused by patient delay. These
phenomena occur in many areas, rural to suburb, coastal to plantation, and so on, and they
are related with social context among community that could be social capital for each
community to deal with TB. Jember as one of county in East Java is known as plantation
area. It also has a high prevalence of TB. This study focused on understanding about social
context among community, especially on plantation area. This cross-sectional study involved
in three districts of Jember, those are Tanggul, Pakusari, and Kalisat. The data were obtained
directly from the TB patients, local community, and Primary Health Care (PHC) where the
patients recorded. Spatial analysis and social network analysis (SNA) were applied to obtain
health seeking behavior pattern among the TB patients coincide the community. Most of TB
patients had already chosen health professionals to lead the treatment, although some of them
remained to choose self-medication. Meanwhile, SNA showed that religious leader was
considered as main part of countermeasures of TB. But they didn’t ever become central
figures. So it can be concluded that there are other parts among community who can
contribute due to combatting on TB. | en_US |
