THE EFFECT OF INCOME AND KNOWLEDGE OF FISHERY COMMUNITY ON THE DEMANDS OF HEALTH SERVICES IN KOLAKA, SOUTHEAST SULAWESI

Abstrak

Fishermen (traditional fishing workers) are groups of people who can be classified as the poorest social strata among other communities in the agricultural sector. This research aimed to analyze the demand of the fishery community for the health service in Kolaka. The type of the research was qualitative with the cross-sectional design. The research was conducted in Kolaka. The research population comprised 1.070 from 10 sub-districts representing the coastal regions, the total samples included 123 respondents, who were chosen using the stratified proportional random sampling technique. The chi-square testrevealed that there were not correlations between the income of fishery community (p=0.973) on the demands for the health services and there were correlations between the knowledge (p=0.000) on the demands for the health services