Health environmental policy formulation in overcoming the impact of forest and land fires in the city of Payakumbuh, West Sumatra.

Forest and land fires that occurred in Indonesia seemed to be an annual routine in the last twenty years. Payakumbuh City is the closest area to Riau Province affected by fires on forest and land. Nearly all members of the community feel the impact of forest and land fires, efforts that have been made in making policies on forest and land fires to protect the community have not been fully overcome. The purpose of this study is to solve the problem of the impact of forest fires as outlined in the formulation of environmental health policies in order to reduce the impact of haze in Payakumbuh City. This study uses a qualitative approach and to formulate an environmental health policy formulation the ideal policy cycle is carried out in the City of Payakumbuh in the community and health offices. With a population of 129,751 with a sample of 118 data collection techniques by distributing questionnaires to each of the related agencies and the community. Analysis of valid research instruments will be taken into items that are used as data collection tools and will be known after testing the validity / validity and reliability of the items, by testing. From the results of research on the impact of forest and land fires on health can be overcome by the existence of policy proposals that have been formulated. In handling the impact of forest fires extra power is needed, the formulation of the material is adjusted to the basic achievements in the formulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]