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A community health worker in Korail Basti, a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals. [2]
The Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat (lit. ' Community Health Center ' ), abbreviated as Puskesmas , are government-mandated community health clinics located across Indonesia . They are overseen by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and provide healthcare for the population on sub-district level.
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, pain (including mental pain), or injury.
Marc Lalonde, who was the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare in 1974, proposed a new "health field" concept, as distinct from medical care. Lalonde noted that the "traditional or generally-accepted view of the health field is that the art or science of medicine has been the fount from which all improvements in health have flowed, and popular belief equates the level of health ...
In 2014, Indonesia introduced its universal healthcare program, the Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), which is provided by BPJS Kesehatan (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial Kesehatan, Health Social Security Agency). [3] It is currently covering over 200 million people. Around 20 million people in Indonesia is covered by private health ...
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Having lost their homes in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, many Haitians now live in precarious camps.. A health crisis is an emergency or complex health system that affects the public in one or more geographic areas from a particular locality to encompass the entire planet.
As part of the JKN, on 1 January 2014, PT Askes (Persero) was changed from a state-owned company into BPJS Kesehatan, a public agency, which becomes the provider of JKN. [3] [4] It is expected that the entire population will be covered in 2019. [5] [6] [7] In 2016, the BPJS program had a deficit of more than six trillion IDR.