Strategi pembangunan kesehatan menuju Indonesia sehat 2010 mengisyaratkan bahwa seluruh pembangunan kesehatan ditujukan pada upaya menyehatkan bangsa. Indikator keberhasilannya antara lain ditentukan oleh angka mortalitas dan morbiditas, angka kematian ibu dan angka kematian bayi. Selama kurun waktu 20 tahun angka kematian bayi (AKB) telah berhasil diturunkan secara tajam, namun AKB menur…
Bayi baru lahir cenderung memiliki kadar vitamin K dan cadangan vitamin K dalam hati yang relatif lebih rendah dibanding bayi yang lebih besar. Sementara itu asupan vitamin K dari ASI belum mencukupi (0,5 ng/L), sedangkan vitamin K dari makanan tambahan dan sayuran belum dimulai. Hal ini menyebabkan bayi baru lahir cenderung mengalami defisiensi vitamin K sehingga berisiko tinggi untuk men…
Postnatal adalah periode setelah kelahiran atau bayi 12-24 minggu, di mana kehidupan manusia dan khususnya kebutuhan dasar seperti terpenuhinya makanan dan sumber nutrisi, perlindungan tubuh yang digunakan berupa pakaian, tempat untuk bernaung dan merasa aman, dapat melakukan aktivitas dan menumbuhkan afeksi sangat bergantung pada orang di sekitarnya khususnya orang dewasa (Mariyati & Rez…
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Critical ideas for tumultuous times. As political, economic and social polarization and inequities within and between coun- tries escalates, and the fast-growing climate crisis and environ- mental degradation accelerate (People’s Health Movement 2017; Beckfield 2018; Friel 2019; Latour 2018; Krieger 2020), ur- gent need exists for clarity about causes of—and paths towards rectif…
Ethnography is bound up with travelling, both literally and metaphorically. Travelling to foreign lands has always been both an adventure and a metaphor for adventure – no one can predict what will befall the traveller – it is an inherently unpredictable activity. Few, perhaps, are lucky enough to combine research and travel in such pleasant lands as northern California and Hawaii. But …
This book is a product of my PhD thesis which I undertook at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Moving to Singapore with my husband in 2000, I had no idea I would pursue a PhD and then undertake to write a book adapted from the thesis. Writing this book has been a long and arduous task. Between the time the PhD degree was awarded and the publication of this book, corpor…
Introduction: Poor maternal health outcome, still a major health problem in developing countries, is influenced by both women’s personal characteristics and the characteristics of the place where they live. Identifying the spatial distribution and clusters of poor maternal health outcomes can assist in developing geographically specific interventions. This article examines the influence of …