Kesehatan Masyarakat

The Success of Mothers in Banten Fighting to Improve Health Facilities

Stories from the Field by Muhamad Ridho Dinata* Cipalabuh Village, located in Cijaku District, Lebak Regency, Banten Province, is an agricultural and plantation area. This village consists of eleven villages which are located far from each other. Difficulty in road access is the main problem that the people of Cipalabuh Village often complain about. This …

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How to Deal with Complaints about Health Services

By Ega Rosalina From 2001 until 2010, Indonesia’s healthcare expenditure per capita leapt more than 300 percent and continues to skyrocket today, according to the WHO. The government’s efforts to deal with this problem by implementing a mutual assistance principal in the National Health Insurance (JKN) program has, unfortunately, not run optimally. Although BPJS Kesehatan has …

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Policy Brief | Civil Society Participation Determines The Success of Health Promotion Efforts

By: Dwi Yunita Prismawati – PATTIRO Semarang Activist Lack of public participation in conducting health promotion results in the ineffective disease prevention efforts. All this time, there are only some small groups involved. Those groups will do this promotion only when they get an instruction and is dominated by women. The government has created a …

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Commemorating World Health Day April 7 2014: The Government Has Not Fulfilled Citizens’ Health Rights

World Health Day, which is celebrated around the world every April 7, raises an important question related to governance, namely, has the Indonesian state, which is characterized as a welfare state, fulfilling the right to health for its citizens? The government has indeed rolled out many health programs, both in the form of cheap and …

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