The Public Health Unit (UKM) is a puskesmas program that aims to improve health and prevent health problems for families, groups, and communities. This is based on the regulation of the Minister of Health Number 43 of 2019 concerning public health centers. So what are the activities of SMEs at the health center? Here’s the full discussion!
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The Role of the Community Health Unit (UKM) of the Health Center
Puskesmas has a role and function as the first health facility in the community to provide comprehensive health services. One of the service programs is UKM short for public health unit. SMEs are focused on efforts to prevent and promote public health. This targets families, groups, and the community. SMEs themselves are divided into essential health and development units.
The essential public health unit is a health program that must be implemented by the health center to achieve the service standards of each district/city in the health sector. Meanwhile, the development public health unit is a health program that is innovative and extensified as well as intensified in services that focus on health problems.
The following are examples of essential public health unit activities as follows:
- Health promotion services
- Environmental health services
- Maternal, child, and family planning health services
- Nutrition Services
- Disease prevention and control services
- SKDR surveillance and sentinels
While the following development public health unit is an example of its activity program as follows:
- Outpatient
- Emergency services
- One day care
- Home care
- Hospitalization
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Examples of Puskesmas UKM Activities
1. Promotion of clean and healthy living
The program included in the Puskesmas UKM is the promotion of healthy and clean living. Puskesmas can socialize the importance of maintaining a clean environment. Clean and healthy living behavior or PHBS is a lifestyle that can be exemplified by every family in maintaining health. This is done both at the family, school, and community levels. By maintaining and implementing PHBS, you can avoid diseases that attack the limbs. Examples of PHBS activities are as follows:
- Diligently wash your hands with clean water and soap.
- Eat vegetables and fruits every day.
- Exclusively breastfeeding babies up to 6 months of age.
- Diligently weigh toddlers every month.
- Use healthy latrines.
- Clean the larvae at home once a week.
2. Ultrasound services for pregnant women
In preventing maternal mortality, early examination during pregnancy is also very important. Through ultrasound services, pregnant women can find out the condition growth, and development of the fetus in the womb. Ultrasound examinations are carried out 4 times during pregnancy.
3. Health promotion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases (PM)
In preventing and controlling diseases, efforts can be made to socialize activities of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases (PM). The activity is in the form of detection and screening in the activities of the elderly posyandu, toddler posyandu, posbindu, to youth posyandu. The following socialization activities in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are:
- Blood pressure checks.
- Blood sugar check.
- Performs measurements and weighing.
- Smoking cessation services.
Meanwhile, activities in the field of infectious diseases are as follows:
- Early detection and screening of community infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, HIV-STIs, leprosy, and hepatitis.
- Prevention with immunization. Infectious disease treatment and consultation services.
4. Free health check-up service for the elderly
In monitoring the health checks of the elderly, several free services can also be applied to health promotion. Health activities that can be intended for the elderly are as follows:
- Nutritional status check.
- Blood pressure checks.
- Vision function examination.
- Examination of hearing function.
- Examination of the oral cavity.
- Cognitive and mental status checks.
- Bone health checks.
- Examination of the reproductive system and breasts.
5. Health services for toddlers and preschoolers
Monitoring the development and growth of children is also very important. Toddlers are a group of children under five years old who need special attention in their development. Meanwhile, preschool children are the golden period of a child’s development. In the promotion of this health activity, the following examples are:
- Nutritional status check.
- Anthropometric examination.
- Giving vitamins and immunizations.
6. Health promotion for adolescents
Health promotion for adolescents is also very important. This is because adolescence is a transition process from childhood to adulthood. Various problems are experienced in this adolescence, for example, juvenile delinquency. For this reason, it is necessary to provide health assistance for adolescents, including socializing health activities. The following are examples of socialization activities for teenagers:
- Socialization of health education.
- Nutrition and nutrition socialization.
- Health assistance and consultation.
- Anthropometric examination.
- HIV and AIDS screening.
- Examination for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
- Anemia examination.
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Ready KIA and Family Planning Examination Sets for Health Centers
In improving health facilities at health centers, KIA set equipment is needed to support it. The following is an introduction to the KIA Set equipment that must be owned by every health center in Indonesia. This KIA Set consists of:
- Examination table
- Examination beds
- Action table
- Gynecological table
- Infusion pole
- Action/check light
- Baby basket or baby box
- Fetal doppler
- Baby Scales
- Skarem
- Stadiometer (height measure)
- Infantometer board
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