Literacy Education on Health in Building Environment Health Behaviour: Qualitative Study on Community of Desa Paku Haji, Kecamatan Ngamprah, Bandung Regency

Abstract

Environment health as an effort of preventing could be done earlier by family or by community. One of the efforts is literacy education on health. This research is about literacy education on health in building environment health literacy. The aims are to find out forms of education on environment health literacy carried out by health officers or nurses; efforts carried out by PKK (family welfare education program) cadres in creating environment health behavior. It used qualitative method with case study approach. Technique of data collecting are interview and literature study, and use data from 5 informants. The research results indicate the health officers and nurses used education strategy that is changing behaviour through health education or promotion, which was started by health information dissemination to village official and the community through socialization and education to local government officers then to the community. In addition, the PKK cadres act as communicators who disseminate information which they got from health officers, health guidebook and research reports. They also provide model for the community in protecting environment, so the community at Pakuhaji village can implement environment health behavior as well.