Integrated Services Post (Posyandu) as Sociocultural Approach for Primary Health Care Issue
Abstract: bThe birth of
Integrated services post (Posyandu) in 1980s is no doubt based on the effort of
the Goverment of Indonesia to improve the health status of the population
following the International call the Declaration of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) about
Primary Health Care in 1978. The key concept of the declaration is community participation.
In Indonesia specifically the community participation is called “gotong
royong”. Community plays an important role in the improvement of their own
health. To involve community in the health care, the volunteer has to be
recruited and trained to recognize basic health care issues. The idea is that
the volunteers that called village health worker (kader) as part of the
community would be much easier to deliver health programs because they are
closer to them compare to the public health officials. This paper is intended
to discuss Posyandu which is basically a sociocultural approach for primary
health care as a strategy to improve the health status of Indonesian people.
Penulis: Oedojo Soedirham
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd120357
