Empowerment of Wangun Village Community Groups, Karyamukti Village in the Community Health Improvement Program Alya Tursina, Eka Hendryanny, Maya Tejasari
Universitas Islam Bandung
Abstract
Wangun Village, Karya Mukti Village, Cililin District, West Bandung Regency is located 34 km from Bandung Islamic University, or can be reached using a four-wheeled vehicle, approximately 1.5 hours drive with road conditions in the form of village roads in mountainous areas with many climbing and steep roads and narrow. Most of the residents in this village work as farmers and livestock breeders. Wangun Village itself is quite far from the center of Karyamukti village, namely around 23 km. The closest health center to Wangun Village is around 34 km and the road that must be taken is a village road in a mountainous location that goes up and down and is difficult to travel. Apart from that, this village road often experiences landslides so that road access is often cut off. This causes these villages to tend to be isolated and difficult to access, including access to health services. It is difficult for people to go to health facilities to obtain health services and health service programs do not reach these areas. From the results of surveys and interviews as well as direct observations in the community, it can be concluded that the priority problems of partners, namely the PKK group and farmer groups in Wangun Village, Karyamukti Village, are: Lack of understanding about health and healthy lifestyles, lack of understanding and ability to implement healthy lifestyles, not yet the existence of skilled health cadres, and the lack of ability to become health promotion cadres, lack of access to health services, lack of health human resources, and the absence of integrated health posts.
The solutions offered to solve the problems faced by Wangun Village, Karyamukti Village, with reference to priority problems are as follows: Health education program which is divided into several themes in stages: health maintenance, environmental health, stunting prevention, children^s health, use of medicinal plants, establishment of and training for health cadres involving PKK groups, cultivation of medicinal plants involving farmer groups, training in making herbal concoctions involving PKK groups and farmer groups, scheduled health service programs by health workers from the Faculty of Medicine, establishment of integrated health posts for toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly, procurement of equipment supporting integrated health posts.
Keywords: Community, Health education, Health improvement
