Birink Ua: The characteristics of Healthy Homes

The house is basically a place to live is very important to the lives of everyone. The house is not just a place to unwind after working all day, but the meaning contained in it are important as a place to build a healthy and prosperous family life. A healthy home and not have to intangible habitable mansions and humble homes a large but can also be the home of a healthy and habitable. Healthy home is the physical, chemical, biological in the home and housing to enable residents or the community obtain the optimal level of health. To create a healthy home will require attention to several aspects that are very influential, among others:

Good air circulation.
Adequate lighting.
Clean water are met.
Waste water disposal well regulated so as not to cause pollution.
Parts such as floor and wall space is not affected by moisture and contamination such as odors, seepage of dirty water and dirty air.

Healthy home is simply that the house has a separate room for the purposes of daily living denagn adequate size, among others:

Bathroom
Dining room / family
Kitchen
Toilet / WC
Laundry

The characteristics of Healthy Homes:

Allocation does not lie in disaster prone areas
Away from air pollution
The quality of groundwater and drinking water should be good and meet health requirements. Soil quality and location of housing must meet the same strict good health.
Facilities and infrastructure should be a good environment
Management of human sewage and garbage disposal does not contaminate ground water, no smell, not used for nesting and other diseases
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Residential Health requirements according to the Decree of the Minister of Health of Indonesia Number: 829/Menkes/SK/VII/1999 are as follows:

1. Building Materials

Not made of materials that can release substances that can endanger the health, among others, as follows:

- Dust Total not more than 150 g m3

- Asbestos-free does not exceed 0.5 fiber/m3/4jam

- Lead did not exceed 300 mg / kg

Not made of materials that can be growth and development of pathogenic micro-organisms.

2. Spatial component and home

Components of the home must meet the physical and biological requirements as follows:

Impermeable floor and easy to clean

Wall

a. In the bedroom, living room equipped with means of ventilation for air circulation arrangements

b. In the bathroom and washing facilities must be watertight and easy to clean

Ceiling should be easy to clean and not prone to accidents
House that has a tube 10 feet high or more shall be equipped with lightning rods
Room in the house should be arranged to function as a living room, family room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, shower room and children's playroom.
The kitchen must be equipped with disposal facilities smoke.

3. Lighting

Natural or artificial lighting, directly or indirectly can illuminate the whole room a minimum of 60 lux intensity and glare.

4. Air Quality

Indoor air quality does not exceed the following requirements:

Comfortable air temperature ranged between l8 ° C to 30 ° C
Humidity ranging from 40% to 70%
SO2 gas concentration does not exceed 0.10 ppm/24 hours
Air exchange
CO gas concentration does not exceed 100 ppm/8jam
Formaldehyde gas concentration does not exceed 120 mg/m3

5. Ventilation

Widespread circulation of a permanent or natural ventilation of at least 10% of floor area.

6. Animal-borne diseases

No rats nest in the house.

7. Water

Available water capacity minmal 60 lt / day / person
Water quality must meet the health requirements of clean water and drinking water in accordance with laws and regulations.

8. The availability of safe food storage and hygiene.

9. Waste

Liquid waste from the house, do not pollute water sources, odorless and does not pollute the soil surface.
Solid waste must be managed so as not to cause odor, do not cause pollution to the surface of the soil and groundwater.

10. Density residential bedroom

Spacious bedrooms and a minimum of 8m2 is not recommended to use more than two people sleeping in one bedroom, except for children under 5 years old. Housing issues have been regulated in the Law on the administration of housing and residential No.4/l992 Chapter III Article 5, paragraph l, which reads "Every citizen has the right to occupy or enjoy or have a decent home and a healthy environment, safe, harmonious and orderly "

When studied further it is only logical the whole society into homes healthy and habitable. The house is not enough just as a place to live and shelter from the hot weather and rain, the house must have a function as: