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4. Maintaining and improving health of the individuals, families and society as well
as their surroundings
Maintaining and improving health of the individuals, families and society as well as their surroundings contain the meaning that the main task of the health sector is to maintain
and improve the health of all citizens, i.e. every individual, family and society of Indonesia, without leaving behind the attempts to cure diseases and or to recover health.
For the implementation of this task, health efforts implementation should prioritize on promotive and preventive efforts supported by curative and rehabilitative efforts. To
maintain and improve the health of individuals, families and society, it is also necessary to create healthy environment, and hence the tasks in environmental sanitation should also
be better prioritized.
Direction, Aims, Targets, Policies and Strategies of Health Development
Direction of Health Development
Direction of health development towards Healthy Indonesia 2010 according to the national development so far consists of:
1.
Health development is an integral part of the national development. The concept of national development should have health concerns, i.e. taking into consideration
seriously various positive and negative impacts of each activity toward public health. Health development is directed to improve quality of human resources who are
healthy, intelligent and productive, as well as capable of maintaining and improving
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public health with high commitment toward humanity and ethics, and it is implemented with the high spirit of empowerment and partnership. Health
development is executed with priority given to health promotion and disease prevention efforts beside the curative and health recovery efforts.
2. Health services run by either government or society should be implemented with
quality, justice and equality by giving special attention to the poor people, children, and deserted elderlies, either living in urban or rural areas. Priority is also given to
remote villages, new settlements, frontier zones and recesses inhabited by poor families.
3. Health development is executed with the national development strategies with health
concerns, professionalism, decentralization and JPKM by paying attention to various challenges existing now and in the future, among other things the economic crisis,
change in demographic dynamics, change in ecology and environment, progress in science and technology, as well as globalization and democratization.
4. The public health maintenance and promotion efforts are done through healthy living
behavior improvement programs, healthy environment programs, public health services that are effective and efficient, being supported by surveillance, information,
and management system that are reliable. Improvement and revision of rules and regulations need to be done in order to support
health development and give legal protection to the public and health workers.
5. The supply and improvement of health facilities and infrastructures are to be
continued. Health researches and improvement need to be upgraded to support the improvement in quality of health efforts. Supply of medicines and health instruments
that are safe and accessible to the society are stepped up through the development of pharmaceutical and health instrument industries that are more advanced and supported
by medicinal raw materials industries that are reliable and the development of Indonesian indigenous drugs. Health funding is stepped up, either that coming from
the government or the public, it is managed effectively and efficiently as well as responsibly.
6. In order to support all the health development efforts, manpower with national
attitude, ethical and professional is required, it should also possess high dedication spirit to the nation and country, being disciplined, creative, educated and skillful, with
noble character and able to hold tight professional ethics. Health manpower and supportive manpower should be improved in quality, capability and distribution so
that they are evenly distributed and able to support the execution of health development at every level especially in supporting the implementation of autonomy
at the districts municipalities.
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Aims of Health Development
The aims of health development toward Healthy Indonesia 2010 is to increase the awareness, will and capability for healthy life of every individual in order to materialize
public health level that is optimal through the creation of an Indonesian society, nation and country that is characterized by its residents living with healthy behavior and within
healthy environment, possessing capability to reach qualified health services justly and evenly, as well as having optimal health level throughout the territory of the Rep. of
Indonesia.
Targets of Health Development
The targets of health development in order to materialize Healthy Indonesia 2010 are: 1.
Cross-sectoral cooperation
The significant rise in cross-sectoral cooperation in health development, positive contribution from other sectors toward health, efforts to overcome negative impacts of
development to health, and improvement in behavior and living environment that are conducive to the achievement of healthy society.
2. Community’s autonomy and private partnership
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