Childhood Ethnoepidemiology in the Context of Cosmology Java

Every community has a knowledge system to respond to their symptoms of illness, including symptoms and illness experienced by children under five. Unfortunately, the symptoms of illness experienced by a child can not be interpreted by the sufferer, so often the response given by adults around them is not in by following the symptoms experienced. Consequently, not a few illnesses experienced by a child become fatal. In this context, research is focused on the study of ethnoepidemiology of children under five and its relation to the socio-cultural environment of the local community in Tanggulangin. This research explores and analyzes field findings with inductive thinking logic. Based on the analysis, the etiology of child's disease in Tanggulangin community can be classified into three, namely natural pain, illness due to the personal system, and illness due to intervention from the modern medical system. While the response of parents when children under five are sick between different generations experience differences. The older generation is more dominant to the traditional medical system and the current generation is dominant to modern medicine. But for some cases, the use of traditional and modern medical systems is done consecutively. This is due to the development of modern health services and education, but the community has not been able to leave the cultural aspects.