Dengue Elimination and Control Program of one City in the Philippines

This study aimed to determine the Dengue Elimination and Control Program in Batangas City. Specifically, it determined the progress of the program from national and local government; it also determined the level of acceptance of the community people of programs with regard to dengue. The descriptive and historical method of research was utilized. Weighted mean was used to assess the practices in compliance to the program and level of acceptance of the respondents toward the variable being investigated. The sample of the study consisted of 205 community people and 35 health care workers in the Top 20 Barangays which had the most number of cases from year 2011-2014. Thus, the results revealed that as to the practices of compliance of the community, it has been observed that they comply. However, it was found out that they fully complied to throwing, turn over, or empty any container that may accumulate rain water. Through the implemented program that was highly accepted by the people, a devised action plan is made to strengthen the implementation of Dengue Elimination and Control Program. For data analysis, the researcher used statistical tools: frequency, percentage and weighted mean.

Keywords – Dengue Elimination, Control Program