<![CDATA[Acute respiratory infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in infections diseases of the world. Environment based diseases are still the main cause of death in Indonesia. ISPA in Indonesia is on the top 10 list of diseases in hospitals. Based on the Makassar city health office report, ISPA became the number one disease in Makassar city among 9 other d iseases with 45.569 cases in 2015 and 44.819 ISPA cases in 2016. One of the factor that can cause a high incidence of ISPA is the physical environment. This study aims to determine how much the risk factor for the quality of the physicalenvironment agaits ISPA events . This study uses simple random sampling technique with a sample 59 people which are then processed by crosstab test. The result showed that there was a relationship of residential density (OR = 2.030, RR = 0.635), ventilation (OR = 0.814, RR = 1.138), type of floor (OR = 0.768, RR = 1.173), type of wall (OR = 5.294, RR = 0.324), distance between the house and the highway (OR = 1.167, RR = 0.909) and cleaning habits ( OR = 1.228, RR = 0.879) with ISPA events.]]>
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