Healthy Family Index Assessment Through Community-based Health Information System Approach

As one of the government’s strategic programs to identify public health problems at the population level, the Healthy Indonesia Program with a Family Approach (PIS-PK) has not been implemented optimally. There are several obstacles and challenges in this program’s implementation, e.g., human resources. Community-based health information system (CBHIS) is a strategic approach to obtain data and information at the population level by directly involving cadres and the community. To support the PIS-PK program, a project with the CBHIS approach was implemented in Kasemen Village, Serang, Banten Province. The study aimed to determine the population’s health status according to healthy family index through the CBHIS approach. The data of healthy family indicators in the village were collected by cadres using an mHealth application. The analysis results of the healthy family index showed that most families in Kasemen subdistrict were pre-healthy (64.2%), almost one third were unhealthy (27.8%) and only a small proportion were healthy (8%). Assessing the healthy family index through the CBHIS approach can support decision-making at the community level, thereby determining the magnitude of family health problems and consequently providing appropriate interventions to improve community health status. Well-trained cadres equipped with better electronic data collection tools may be an alternative to population-level data collection as many Puskesmas do not have sufficient human resources for community-level data collection.