High-dose vitamin A supplementation twice a year to children 6–59 months old in vitamin A deficient areas has been studied to reduce under-five mortality by 23%. Vitamin A deficiency increases the risk of death associated with infectious diseases due to lower immune system of the body. Vitamin A supplementation program has been implemented in Indonesia with varying coverage. Many factors of r…
The difference between the needs and the demands of the ommunity in urban, villages, islands and isolated areas had caused the difference approach towards health facilities. To fulfil the demands, Pondok Bersalin Desa (Polindes), or village delivery house, as a model which goal was to ease the access to delivery care and to solve the mortality problems, the Polindes utilisation was need to be a…