Abstract :

Under-five year children  death  in Indonesia due to pneumonia are 32 per 1000 live birth.  Data in 2018  in West Sumatra, the prevalence of ISPA was 5%, pneumonia rose to 2.5%, in the city of Padang in 2018, the number of pneumonia sufferers were 3,196 under-five year children (3.91 %). In public  Health Center, Belimbing the cases of respiratory tract infection is ranked first among the ten most common diseases (53%). The aim of the research is to analyze the knowledge to the  skill of cadres regarding the early detection of pneumonia in under five year children. This research design is a cross-sectional study. The population in this research were  55 respondents. Data collection used questionnaires and observation sheets. Data processing was used by editing, coding, entrying and cleaning. Univariate analysis was made in frequency distribution in percentages, and bivariate analysis used the Chi square test (CI 95%). The research results showed that there is a relationship between knowledge to health cadres’s skill, with  p-value (0.004). It is hoped that cooperation will continue the program for sustainability and conduct continuous evaluation to reduce pneumonia.

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Keywords :

: Cadres, Knowledge, Pneumonia, Public Health Centre, Skill

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