Department of Health, Keep Socializing PHBS


Revitalization of health centers and integrated health, which are the frontline in meeting basic health needs and improving people's nutrition, should be improved in order to improve community health status. In addition to lowering maternal mortality and child, also effectively promote clean living and healthy behaviors (PHBs). This program aims to improve function and performance of health centers and posyandu.

Chief Medical Officer, H Kosasi SKM, through the Head Promyankes, SKM Joseph H. Fait said the program PHBs in the district / city is coordinated through the two centers, the Health Center and Health Office of district / city. Community Health Center is a center of health promotion activities and the PHBs at the district level with the target individuals who come to health centers and family and community health centers in the region. Department of Health districts / cities carry out health promotion to support health promotion and PHBs are implemented by the health center and other health care facilities in the district / city. 
Person in charge of all health promotion activities and PHBs in the area is the District Health Office / City. District Health Office / City must be able to coordinate and develop health promotion activities and PHBs in the region by involving health facilities at district / city. 

PHBs are implemented operational programs in the health center by the officers of health promotion health center by involving cross-linked and cross-sector programs with the goal of all families in the health center. 
Healthy is the gift of God to be grateful, because healthy is a human right that must be respected. Healthy is also investments to improve labor productivity in order to improve the welfare of the family. A wise man says that "Health is not everything but without health everything becomes meaningless." Because it's health needs to be kept, maintained and enhanced by every member of the household and championed by all parties. 

Many benefits can be obtained when implementing PHBs include every household is not easy to increase health and illness, healthy household can increase work productivity of family members, by increasing the health of household members who had been allocated to the cost of health can be diverted to the cost of such investments cost of education and other efforts that can improve the welfare of household members.