The Muyu Women and Their Birthing Culture: How to Move Labor to Health Facilities
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201107.004How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- maternal mortality rate, maternal health, safe labor, Muyu Tribe
- Abstract
The research was a part of participatory action research aimed to descriptively explore the issue and to suggest the possible solution to the high risk childbirth tradition. It was conducted in Mindiptana District, Boven Digoel Regency, Papua. The data was collected using in-depth interviews to Muyu women, Muyu elderlies, the pastor who was assigned in Muyu Pastoral, midwives and health workers who work in Mindiptana health community centre (Puskesmas Mindiptana) and Transient Hospital (Rumah Sakit Bergerak). It was continued by a focus group discussions of midwives and health workers in those health facilities. The researcher have work closely with all the stake holders in the district which are the local government and the community to formulate joint solutions which are appropriate to the local culture. The result of the study is the suggested action plan consisted of capacity building on (1) infrastructure by building a safe maternity house and expanding the communication means between remote areas and health facilities, (2) social organisation by involving the community leader and pastoral for promoting safe labor in health facilities, (3) individual and family level by conducting reproductive health education.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- 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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TY - CONF AU - Desi Ariwinanti AU - Nurnaningsih Herya Ulfah AU - JennyVeronika Samosir AU - Aan Kurniawan PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/09 TI - The Muyu Women and Their Birthing Culture: How to Move Labor to Health Facilities BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sports Sciences and Health 2019 (ICSSH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 14 EP - 18 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201107.004 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201107.004 ID - Ariwinanti2020 ER -