Abstract

Some diseases related to the environment are still the major problem in Indonesia Rate of cases and visits to health service for Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), diarrhoea, tuberculosis, helminthiasis, malaria, and Dengue Haemorrbagic Fever (DHF) disease are still high. The aim of this study is to assess potential years of life lost (PYLL) of the community due to suffering from diseases related to environment. Data was analysed using demography approach, with indirect technique for measuring and calculating PYLL. The steps of calculating: detemrine the level of the mortality, the population by sex and age groups and the mortality proportion. Samples covered 206,000 households, which were the sample of Household Health Survey 1995, and the sample design was probability proportional to size (PPS). The results show: life expectancy was 67.5 years for women and 63.6 years for men. The highest PYLL for women and men due to infectious diseases were 2,977,572 and 3,483,417 years, for ARI diseases were 2,331,579 and 2,510,178 and perinatal disorders were 2,016,748 and 2,612,642 years. However, the highest death proportions of infectious diseases for women and men were tuberculosis, diarrhoea and pneumonia. But the highest proportion of PYLL found due to pneumonia and the second was diarrhoeal diseases. Based on region, the PYLL in outer Java Bali was two times higher than Java Bali (773,396 vs 344,054 years). While the PYLL for men in Java Bali due to typhoid was two times higher than outer Java Bali (630,203 vs 311,073 years). PYLL caused by malaria either for men or women outer Java Bali higher then Java Bali (women 194,950 vs 7,690 years and men 324,571 vs 50,788 years). It could be concluded that PYLL for some diseases related to environment were high. So it's recommended to give special attention in water supply and human waste disposal, environmental health, food and beverages sanitation efforts in order to decrease morbidity rate and PYLL. Keywords : mortality, life lost, environmental health