Semarang, 24 September 2024 – The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia has 6 pillars of health transformation, one of which is Primary Care Transformation. Primary care transformation is the first pillar in Indonesia’s health transformation that focuses on strengthening preventive promotive activities to create more healthy people, improving health screening and increasing primary care capacity. One of the steps implemented in Primary Care Transformation is the Primary Care Integration policy. The innovation of the Primary Care Integration Policy in Indonesia is one of the government’s initiatives to provide improved access, quality, and continuity of health services, as well as to ensure that the community receives comprehensive and sustainable services, especially at the First Level Health Facility. The existence of the Primary Care Integration policy has generated various responses from stakeholders and the community. In response to the development of issues related to Primary Care Integration, the Health Administration and Policy Department of the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Diponegoro invited c from the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, as well as the Coordinator of the Transform Health Indonesia Coalition to provide a broader insight into the Primary Care Integration policy.
This activity was held on 24 November 2024 at Hall D FKM UNDIP and was attended by students from semester 1, 3, 5, and also semester 7, especially students of Health Policy Administration specialisation. This activity was guided by a moderator from the Health Policy Administration Department Lecturer, namely Putri Asmita Wigati, SKM, M.Kes. The Dean of the Faculty of Public Health UNDIP, Dr Budiyono, SKM., M.Kes began the guest lecture with a speech and opening and expressed his hopes that students could gain a lot of new knowledge from the speakers related to Primary Care Integration policy. The guest lecture ran well until the afternoon coupled with interesting discussions based on questions from the participants.
From left to right: Putri Asmita Wigati, SKM, M.Kes and Putri Asmita Wigati, SKM, M.Kes
Prof Ede stated in his presentation that ‘public health is everybody’s business’, which means that it takes the involvement of all stakeholders to improve public health. Regarding Primary Care Integration, Prof. Ede said that there are many things that need to be prepared for the implementation of ILP, including the revitalisation of Community Health Centres (Puskesmas Pembantu) for services at the village level, increasing the capacity of cadres to meet cadre competency standards consisting of 25 basic competencies, preparing budgets for cadre incentives, and so on. Therefore, the Primary Care Integration topic is considered to be an interesting topic as a research study material for student theses and lecturer research. Prof. Ede hopes that the Primary Care Integration programme can run effectively and efficiently throughout Indonesia to improve the health status of the Indonesian people.
