Desa Siaga: Upaya Pemberdayaan Masyarakat di Bidang Kesehatan Melalui Peran Bidan di Desa

ABSTRACT: “Desa Siaga” is the one of government’s program for empowering community in health sector, especially to decrease maternal and infant mortality in village areas. This program actually plays as the implementation of empowerment concept. In this paper we elaborate the step how to implementing the concepts of empowerment, and also make an explanation of the empowerment theory as a program and process which is infl uence by the role of the midwives at village level. Some research revealed that factors infl uencing the performance of midwives are age, marital status, education level, knowledge, attitude, duration of job, motivation and also their activities in community organization.
Key words: Desa Siaga, community empowerment, midwives
Penulis: Hoirun Nawalah, M. Bagus Qomaruddin, Rahmat Hargono
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd120123

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