Health is a state of well being of body, soul, and socially to enable more people to live socially and economically productive. Is
a health maintenance and prevention efforts combating health problems
that require examination, treatment and / or care, including pregnancy
and childbirth. Health
education is the process of helping someone, acting individually or
collectively, to make informed decisions on matters that affect personal
health and others. Even
simpler definition submitted by Larry Green and his colleagues who
wrote that health education is a combination of learning experiences
designed to facilitate voluntary adaptation of behavior conducive to
health. Recent
data show that currently more than 80 percent of Indonesian people are
not able to receive health insurance from the agency or company in the
field of health care, such as Access, TASPEN, and Social Security. Segments
of society that are considered 'teranaktirikan' in terms of their
health insurance is a small community groups and traders. In
health care, this problem becomes more complicated, since the
management of health services is not only related to some groups of
people, but also the special nature of health care itself.
One
of the national goals is to promote the welfare of the nation, which
means meeting basic human needs, ie food, clothing, food, education,
health, employment and living peace. Health
development goals are to attain the ability to live a healthy life for
every resident, so the responsibility for the realization of optimal health status is in the hands of all the people of Indonesia, the
government and the private sector together.
Healthcare Development Goals
For the long-term health sector development aimed at achieving the following key objectives:
- Increase the ability of communities to help themselves in the field of health.
- Improvement of environmental quality that can ensure the health.
- Improved nutritional status of the community.
- Reduction in morbidity (morbidity) and death (mortality).
- Development of healthy and prosperous families, with the increasing acceptance of small family y norm is happy and prosperous.
Basics of Health Development
Basics of national development in the health sector are as follows:
All citizens are entitled to obtain optimal health status in order to work and live worthy of human dignity.Government and society are responsible for maintaining and enhancing the health of the people.Implementation
of health activities regulated by the government and carried out in a
harmonious and balanced by the government and society.