Tsunami in District of Ciamis had brought about the damage of some infrastructures and 19.130 housings, and caused 368 fatalities in the area. There was 30,300 refugees scattered in 21 points of refugee camps. If the tsunami aftermath does not rapidly mitigate will result in public health problem. In line with the effort of dealing with the problem, it had been performed a rapid survey on the c…
The district of Lumajang in the year 2005 has launched a policy which was named healthy community development movement (GERBANGMAS) and implemented through integrated health post. It takes only 3 months since the head of the district of Lumajang offers an idea to revitalized heath postand implementing the healthy community development movement as a public policy. The purpose of this study is to…
ndonesia has an important progress in community health status improvement, i.e infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy. However, amongs the ASEAN country these indicator were worse within the member. Since monetary crisis in 1997, difficulty of family economic decreased nutrition status of child. This situation shows Indonesia still have many problems about mother a…
Health reproductive problems could not be avoided from cultural problems especially gender discrimination. In many developing countries, paternalistic system causes mothers more attention to husband and children heath rather than herself, although she is pregnant or in lactating condition. It affects high maternal mortality and morbidity rate. The research is an ethnographic study which was con…
Self-medication is any effort to cure one self from illness using medicines, traditional medicines of other means without consulting health professionals. Self-medication is usually taken for mild illness and if whose not helppatients tend to seek medication from community health center. The aims of study were to obtain the proportion and self-medication pattern from outpatients of community h…