Decision Making System for Determining the Hepatitis Food Criteria using Analytical Hierarchy Process Method

Hepatitis is a kind of inflammation which attacks the body's organ known as liver. Hepatitis itself is divided into commonly known types namely Hepatitis A, B, and C. however, there exist other types of hepatitis called D, E, G which are not familiar. The understanding of patients regarding hepatitis is an obstacle in healing. The thing that is needed is to regulate diet and avoid foods that are prohibited (high sodium, high saturated fat, high sugar, and high protein). Hepatitis sufferers must pay attention to food patterns, must control foods consumed daily, must consume food with low salt, low saturated fat, low in sugar, and low in protein to reduce the risk of not worsening the condition of people with hepatitis. The decision making system determines the hepatitis food criterion using 5 criteria’s, namely the presence of high sodium, high saturated fat, high protein, high sugar, and high iron. While the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is a decision making model which defines the multi-factor problems or complex multi criteria into a hierarchy. With hierarchy, a complex problem could be partitioned into smaller groups which are then ordered in a hierarchy to arrange the problem in a structural and systematic way.