Background: The outbreak of Covid-19 virus in various countries has caused a lot of very significant changes. This Covid-19 outbreak has had profound impact on various aspects of life, from an economic, political, social perspective, and especially in terms of public health, especially in Indonesia. The symptoms caused by the Covid-19 virus are not only focused on physical health, but also affect psychological health. Goal: To prove that mental health affects immunity system.
Methods: Systematic review.
Result: The lower positive attitude, lack of social support, poor strategies in reducing the spread of virus, working with Covid-19 infected patient, causes high levels of stress.
Conclusion: Prolonged stress and anxiety is decreasing body’s immune respons, thus making the body susceptible to disease. So that in overcoming this pandemic, beside focused on physical health, it is necessary to consider mental and psychosocial health
Keywords: Mental Health, Covid-19, Immune system
Background: At a vulnerable age they continue to smoke, if they do not apply PHBS (Healthy and Clean Living Behavior), the degree of health in the elderly will decrease and the diseases caused by cigarettes will increase. To overcome this, health promotion is needed to increase elderly knowledge of the negative impact of cigarettes, substances contained in cigarettes, and change the mindset of the elderly about cigarettes.
Destination: The purpose of this review literature is to analyze various perceptions of elderly active smokers about health promotion media.
Method: This study used the method is literature review. The method used in searching research journal articles is google scholar and garuda database. Keywords which used are “Media promkes”, “Precepts Active Smokers” and “Promkes”. We found 15 research journal articles with the year published from 2016 to 2021. At the time of the search process the research journal article authors found 21 research journal articles. Filtering is based on the suitability of topics, research methods, and the results of each journal article research.
Results: Most indonesian people when looking at health promotion media in the form of images warning of the dangers of smoking arise various perceptions. As they perceived the image was just an engineering one, they perceived that the image was disgusting and frightening, and the picture warning of the dangers of smoking was not large enough.
Conclusion: Electronic health promotion media such as, video on the dangers of smoking, short films on the dangers of smoking, true stories of former people with throat cancer, etc. are more effective than visual health promotion media in suppressing the percentage of smokers in Indonesia
Background: The Lower Limb is the body prone to pain and injuries due to prop up the overall weight. Acupuncture is an eastern medicine with stabbing needles on the specific surface area of the body that can cause analgesic effects. Acupressure massage therapy development emphasizes acupuncture points that increase the saturation of oxygen and cause muscle relaxation effects. Our study aimed to identify the influence of acupuncture and acupressure therapy against a decline in the lower limb pain sufferers' pain level.
Subject and method: The study was conducted in February-March In Dukuh Duwetan, Village Jumantono, district Ngunut, Karanganyar Regency. The sample of the research taken is 30 farmers, both men, and women, aged 30-50 years have lower limb pain complained during and after work. This research is a pre-experimental design with One Group pretest-posttest with a 30 community Dukuh Duwetan meets the criteria of inclusion. The data collected is the primary data with the recording and assessment of the results of the action. Statistical tests using univariate analysis and bivariate analysis using Wilcoxon.
Result: There is a decreasing scale of pain in lower limb pain sufferers community Dukuh Duwetan with the value of the Wilcoxon test p = 0.00 < 0.05.
Conclusion: The presence of acupuncture and acupressure therapy were influence against downturn lower limb pain.