Community Empowerment Through Independent Family Health Evaluation (IFHE)-based Healthy Villages

Abstract

Partners are Tutul Village, Balung District, Jember Regency. The objectives of this study are 1) identification of the community paradigm in the health sector, especially independence in recognizing changes in health status, 2) identification of entrepreneurship in the health sector that supports the family economy. As a solution for strengthening the Healthy Village program based on Independent Family Health Evaluation (IFHE).. Method: The activity takes for about 8 months. The approach method has several stages, namely: forming a task force team, mapping the family health area, strengthening the competence of the task force team, preparing the IFHE health identification format, testing the IFHE format and assisting families in identifying family health status independently. The results that were obtained were the increasing of knowledge and skills toward the health themes on the task force team, the family was able to identify family health status using the IFHE format and the increasing of the knowledge, skills, and family health behaviour. The conclusion is the improving public health behavior with the support of the Task Force Team and the entire community can make the IFHE-based Healthy Village