Kinerja petugas sanitasi merupakan salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi rendahnya mutu/kualitas lingkungan, khususnya sanitasi dasar yang berdampak terhadap timbulnya penyakit-penyakit yang berbasis lingkungan seperti diare, kulit, ISPA dan lain-lain. Selain itu peningkatan kinerja merupakan salah satu upaya dalam rangka meningkatkan sumber daya manusia di daerah yang mandiri dan berkualitas.Dalam penelitian ini, rendahnya cakupan ISPA dan tingginya jumlah penyakit yang berbasis lingkungan dijadikan latar belakang timbulnya rnasalah. Masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah rendahnya kinerja petugas sanitasi puskesmas di Kabupaten Lampung Tengah. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui kinerja petugas sanitasi di Kabupaten Lampung Tengah dan faktor-faktor apa saja yang berhubungan dengan kinerja tersebut. Populasi dan sampel penelitian adalah seluruh petugas sanitasi di Kabupaten Lampung Tengah yang berjumlah 30 petugas. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif dengan rancangan penelitian cross sectional. Analisis data yang dilakukan adalah analisis univariat dan bivariat. Analisis univariat menggunakan distribusi frekuensi dengan ukuran persentase, sedangkan analisa bivariat menggunakan uji chi square. Nilai alpha yang digunakan adalah 5% (CI 95%).Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang bermakna antara kinerja dengan tingkat pendidikan, aktifitas sosial, sarana dan prasarana, imbalan, struktur, dukungan pimpinan, desain pekerjaan, kontrol dan motivasi.Disarankan kepada Puskesmas dan Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Lampung Tengah untuk meningkatkan kinerja petugas sanitasi dengan upaya-upaya antara lain: peningkatan pendidikan, peningkatan aktifitas sosial, pengadaan sarana dan prasarana, pernberian imbalan, peningkatan kerjasama lintas program, dukungan pimpinan, pengurangan tugas rangkap secara bertahap, peningkatan kontrol terhadap petugas sanitasi dan peningkatan motivasi kerja petugas sanitasi.

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Factor Related to the Sanitation Officials Performance of Public Health in Order to Improve Coverage Waste Water Treatment System in Central Lampung Region 2003The sanitation officials performance is one factors which influence low environmental quality, Especially the basic sanitation which causes the disease from environment such as : Diarrhea, Scabies, ISPA, etc. Besides the improvement of performance is one way to improve human resources in region which is qualified and self relied on.

In this research, low coverage of waste water treatment system and the high number of diseases which are environment based is the back ground. The problem of this research is the low performance of sanitation officials in Public Health Centre in Central Lampung. The objectives of this research were to find out the performance of sanitation officials in Central Lampung and factor related to performance. The population and sample of the research were all sanitation officials of thirty Central Lampung. This research is quantitative using cross sectional. The data were analyzed univariate and bivariate. Univariate used frequent distribution with percentage, while bivariate analysis used chi square test. Alpha being used was 5 % (Cl 95 % ).

The result of the research shows that there is a meaningful correlation between the sanitation officials performance with educational level, social activities, accommodation, incentive, divisional relationship inter organizational, leader support, work design, control and motivation.

It is suggested to public Health Centre and Health Institution of Central Lampung to improve the sanitation officials performance with some efforts such as : the improvement of education, the improvement of social activities, providing accommodation, providing financial support, the better cooperation across program, leader support, the step by step reduction of double functions, better control to the sanitation officials and their motivation.