Individual and Housing Environment Risk Factors Related to Malaria in Punduh Pedada, Pesawaran District of Lampung Province in 2010

The design of this study is the cross sectional with survey methods. The population was households in Sukajaya Punduh, Kampung Baru, Pulau Pahawang, Sukarame, Kota Jawa, Bawang, Sukamaju, and Pagar Jaya in Punduh Pedada with a sample of 414 persons from 82 households, selected through multistage cluster sampling. The results showed that the incidence of malaria infection prevalence in sub Punduh Pidada is 52.2% and the type of plasmodium is P. vivax. Knowledge, perception, use of mosquito nets, use of anti-mosquito drugs, the use of wire gauze, cover the body, activities outside the home that night and the job is the individual risk factors. Housing conditions, environmental brood of mosquitoes, cattle raising and the distance of the house with a brood is a residential environmental risk factors. Proposed research is to improve the behavior of individuals and improve the environment held by the community worked together with all stakeholders.