WE NEED A BIGGER BOMB: A COMMUNITY ATTEMPT ON FIGHTING DENGUE FEVER IN A SUBURBAN SURABAYA, INDONESIA

Abstract

Dengue had became a major public health problem
in Southeast Asia, which seem to be seriously
growing in the future. Outbreaks were happened in
2013, several evidences suggest that it were widely
unrecognized, much has been unreported and the
amount of budget often not enough for running the
eradication program.1
Surabaya and Jakarta were two areas first reported
outbreak of dengue fever in 1968. The following year
this disease became epidemic which appears
annually with the outbreak pattern occurred every
five or ten years. 2
Based on East Java Province Health Department, in
the beginning of 2015 have been reported 1,817
cases of dengue fever. This case increased by 85.4%
from the previous year in the same month, i.e.
January 2014, which only reached 973 cases. 3
The concept of social capital widely addressed
directly relates to the role and function of
community health in providing health promotion
which stressed the significance of participation,
community capacity building, achieving the
community health promotion by collective action
and empowerment.4 Putnam and other scholar
explain that participation was very important in a
variety of networks and see that social capital can
help their collective action to achieve the goal of
good health through the paths of individual social
capital and social capital as a collective attribute. 5, 6,
7
According to the initial assessment at Tegalan, there
would be three level of dengue prevention and
control problem, which are at individual level,
neighbourhood and community level, and intersectoral
level. These three level later on reveal
different aspect of dengue management situation.
This study tries to describe the existence of
community social capital regarding dengue fever
prevention and control in Tegalan sub-district,
Surabaya.