“The health system is a system in the health sector that includes all activities whose main purpose is to improve, restore or maintain health,” said Dr. Ede Surya Darmawan, S.K.M., M.D.M., Head of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Universitas Indonesia (UI) Master of Hospital Administration Studies Study Program at a knowledge sharing event for students from the University of Technology Sydney, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in Room G103 FPH UI.
Furthermore, the health system is organized by all components in an integrated and mutually supportive manner to ensure that the highest degree of public health is achieved. Community health workers are an important component in the implementation of the health system. Community health workers in this case become one of the executors of health services.
In Indonesia, minimum service standards must cover 12 aspects, namely: health services for pregnant women, health services for mothers giving birth, health services for newborns, health services for toddlers, health services at the age of primary education, health services at productive age, health services for elderly people, health services for people with hypertension, health services for people with diabetes mellitus, health services for people with severe mental disorders, health services for people suspected of tuberculosis, and health services for people at risk of being infected with a virus that weakens the human immune system.
Several public health services in Indonesia include community health centers or community health centers (Puskesmas), mobile health clinics or mobile health clinics, sub-community health centers or auxiliary health centers, village health posts or village health posts and integrated service posts (posyandu).
Furthermore, Dr. Ede explained that since 2021, the Indonesian government through the Ministry of Health has focused on implementing health transformation. Health transformation is planned to be carried out from 2021 to 2024, focusing on 6 areas including primary service transformation, referral service transformation, health resilience system transformation, health financing system transformation, health HR transformation and health technology transformation.
The Ministry of Health is trying to transform the health system by prioritizing promotive-preventive and preventive programs in all lines of people’s lives. It is hoped that the transformation of the health system will be able to improve health services which will later have implications for increasing the highest degree of public health.
Apart from having knowledge sharing sessions and discussions with students at FPH UI, 14 students and 2 lecturers from the University of Technology Sydney who were carrying out a student exchange program at the UI Faculty of Nursing also had the opportunity to visit the Mutiara Bogor Raya Waste Management Site (TPA) and Rangga Mekar TPA together with a team from FPH UI on Wednesday, 14 June 2023.
The student exchange program from the University of Technology Sydney aims to exchange information on the development of nursing science in Australia and also to gather information about nursing in Indonesia and find out the condition of health services in Indonesia. (wrk)
