{"id":2179,"date":"2024-07-29T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.binus.ac.id\/communications\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2024-08-22T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T00:23:58","slug":"community-empowerment-in-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.binus.ac.id\/communications\/2024\/07\/29\/community-empowerment-in-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Empowerment in Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Lily El Ferawati, a lecturer of the Communications program, at BINUS University International was invited to deliver a speech at a program held by the Health Department of East Jakarta Administrative City called “Monitoring dan Evaluasi Program Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Bidang Kesehatan<\/em><\/strong>” (Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Empowerment in Health).<\/p>\n

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Miss Lily delivers a speech in front of the representatives of Puskesmas and PKK from 5 sub-districts of East Jakarta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event took place on July 24th<\/sup>, 2024 from 12.00 to 15.00, involving 20 representatives of the Public Health Centers and PKK (Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga<\/em>)\u00a0 from 5 sub-districts in the administrative city. Each representative of the Public Health Centre presented the report of Community Empowerment programs they handled within the second quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n

Miss Lily served as an assessor by which she provided comments on the report presented by each representative. After the report presentation, Miss Lily delivered her speech to explain the evaluation and the strategies for innovative community empowerment programs.<\/p>\n

By definition, community empowerment in health refers to “a fundamental idea in health promotion that can help communities determine priorities, make choices, develop strategies and implement them to improve health and minimize health disparities” (Kruahong et al., 2023<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The pillars of community empowerment in health<\/h3>\n

Community empowerment in health revolves around four main pillars as listed below.<\/p>\n

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  1. Health education<\/li>\n
  2. Fundamental health services<\/li>\n
  3. Community participation<\/li>\n
  4. Access to resources<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The reports presented by the health representatives showed that the community empowerment programs in East Jakarta are dominantly centered around providing fundamental health services through Posyandu<\/em> (Pos Pelayanan Kesahatan Terpadu<\/em>\/Integrated Health Service Posts) and its subsidiaries including Posyandu<\/em> Lansia<\/em> (Posyandu<\/em> for aging community members), Posyandu Remaja<\/em> (Posyandu for teenagers), and Posyandu KIA<\/em> (Posyandu for Mother and Kids), as well as Posbindu<\/em> (Pos Binaan Terpadu<\/em>\/Integrated Health Monitoring Posts).<\/p>\n

    To ensure its success, community empowerment programs must achieve five principles. According to Kusbaryanto<\/a>, the five principles are as follows:<\/p>\n