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This paper reports the results of formative and outcome evaluation of two ongoing community-based intervention programmes for integrated non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in urban low-income settings of Ballabgarh near New Delhi, India, and in Depok, West Java Province of Indonesia. At both sites, a coalition of community members facilitated by academic institution and the World Health Organization, planned and implemented the intervention since 2004. The intervention consisted of advocacy and mediation with stakeholders, training of volunteers and school teachers, communication campaigns, risk assessment camps and reorientation of health services. The formative evaluation was based on the review of documents, and outcomes were assessed using the standardized surveys for NCD risk factors in 2003-2004 and 2006-2007. The baseline surveys showed that tobacco use, low intake of fruits and vegetable, suboptimal levels of physical activity and obesity were prevalent in both the communities. A frequent change in local administrators and lack of perceived priority for health and NCDs limited their involvement. Pre-existing engagement of community-based organizations and volunteers in health activities facilitated its implementation. The reach of the programme among the population was modest (25-32%). Health system interventions resulted in increased diagnosis and better management of NCDs at health facilities. Early outcome measures showed mixed results of change in different risk factors. The experiences gained are being used in both countries to expand and provide technical support to national efforts. This paper adds to the knowledge base on the feasibility of designing and implementing large-scale community-based interventions for integrated prevention of NCDs through modification of risk factors.

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Introduction: Indonesian health status is strongly influenced by clean and healthy living behaviour (PHBS or Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat). PHBS programmes should be implemented from school age so that healthy lifestyle practices can persist into adulthood. Community nurses implement play socio-dramas (Ko-Berdrama) as a method of health education in an effort to increase PHBS. Objectives:To determine the effect of play sociodrama (Ko-Berdrama) intervention to change the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of PHBS in school age children. Method:The design is a quasi experimental one for 8 months. The calculated sample size was 184 school age chidren. School age children 6-12 years old who had a problem of lack of PHBS based on the results of questionnaires and screening PHBS were included in the study. Community nurses used play socio-drama (Ko-Berdrama) in seven sessions over 6 months, staging each session for 20 minutes followed by 20 minutes of discussion, Data collection tool was a questionnaire consisting of variable knowledge, attitudes, and PHBS skills of school-age children. Data were analysed using the paired t-test.Results: Results using the paired t-test of knowledge, attitude, and skills variables on schoolage children before and after Ko-Berdrama interventions were tabulated. The results showed that socio-dramatic play significantly affects _________________________________________

Suara Surabaya sebagai salah satu radio di Kota Surabaya merupakan radio yang menerapkan format "radio News" dan informasi, dimana informasi yang sering di sampaikan antara lain kondisi lalu lintas, keamanan, dan seputar Kota Surabaya. Radio Suara Surabaya mengembangkan siaran interaktif berbasis jurnalistik masyarakat, dimana agasan ini melibatkan partisipasi warga dalam melaporkan peristiwa kepada penyiar radio yang sedang bertugas. Laporan masyarakat yang masuk kemudian disebarluaskan kembali baik oleh penyiar melalui siaran radio maupun oleh gatekeeper melalui media social yang dimiliki Radio Suara Surabaya, baik twitter dan Facebook untuk memberikan informasi kepada masyarakat. Tingginya jumlah laporan perhari yang masuk melalui media social dan beragamnya topik dari laporan tersebut menimbulkan kesulitan dalam mengidentifikasi suatu topik dari kumpulan laporan media social masyarakat dan menghabiskan banyak waktu jika dilakukan secara manual oleh manusia. Padahal, kumpulan laporan tersebut merupakan sumber data yang sangat berpotensi untuk memberikan informasi apa yang terjadi di Kota Surabaya. Dengan kondisi demikian, dibutuhkan suatu pemodelan topik yang mampu secara otomatis mengklasifikasikan pesan media social ke dalam topik-topik yang muncul dari hasil pemodelan. Pemodelan topik dilakukan dengan metode Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), sebuah metode text mining untuk menemukan pola tertentu pada sebuah dokumen dengan menghasilkan beberapa macam topik yang berbeda. Eksperimen pemodelan topic dengan metode LDA menyimpulkan bahwa jumlah topik yang terdapat dalam pesan media social adalah 4 topik. Hasil eksperimen ini telah diuji secara mesin dengan nilai perplexity terbaik sebesar 213.41 dan diuji kemudahannya untuk diinterpretasi oleh manusia melalui uji koherensi topik yang terdiri dari word intrusion task dan topic intrusion task. Kesimpulan dari uji koherensi topik menyatakan bahwa model yang dihasilkan dengan metode LDA pada studi kasus ini dapat diinterpretasi manusia dengan baik. Kata Kunci-Radio Suara Surabaya, pesan media sosial, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), uji koherensi topik, word intrusion task, topic intrusion task.