EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE IN INDONESIA

DOI

10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Anthropology; Evolution; health; dukun and paraji.

Abstract

The evolution in the field of health care has been going on for quite a long time in the Indonesian society. The development of the evolution of health care in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, has developed in line with the development of the city itself. Research question in this study focuses on the evolution of health care in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. This study used a qualitative approach using the methods of observation and interview.The findings of this study showed that the health service in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, starting with the traditional treatment methods in traditional medicine, are held by dukun in general and women's health services are performed by paraji which is to place health services conducted in the homes of the population. However, the development of the service is starting to disappear because of modernization, replaced with health services performed by physicians and other health paramedics. Ffurthermore, a growing ministry is also carried out at Posyandu, Puskesmas, and hospitals. Nevertheless, health services performed by dukun and paraji remain there even though in only a small scale and done in secret.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Junardi Harahap
PY  - 2016/12
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TI  - EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE IN INDONESIA
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 100
EP  - 102
SN  - 2352-5398
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