The Ministry Of Health Calls The Indonesian Health Survey Can Be A Guide For Regions To Handle Health Problems

Illustration of treatment rooms in hospitals treating children with health problems. (Between)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Health (Wamenkes) Dante Saksono Harbuwono said the 2023 Indonesian Health Survey (SKI) provides a specific picture to bring accurate interventions to public health problems.

"This Indonesian Health Survey is temporarily updated every five years for the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) so that the most accurate approach information can be fulfilled," said Dante in Jakarta, Tuesday, June 27, quoted by Antara.

Dante said SKI 2023 was a follow-up program from Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2007, 2013, and 2018, which took effect in all regions in Indonesia.

The data generated from the program will determine the government policies that will be regulated in the RPJMN.

For example, he continued, related to the results of the survey on the number of heart cases in Aceh. From the results of the previous Riskesdas, the number of cases to the right pattern of intervention was obtained.

"For example, this heart is due to high cholesterol in Aceh, so an approach to treating cholesterol and evaluation of cholesterol will be carried out specifically in Aceh and so on," he said.

The same thing also happened to reports of diabetes cases. Thanks to the survey, an overview of the diabetes mosaic was formed by two things, namely genetic factors and the environment.

Dante said genetic factors in diabetic patients were unavoidable, as population growth rates increased, so diabetes was due to the marriage model that brought the diabetes gene to appear.

But for non-genetic or environmental numbers such as lifestyles and habits, he said, it also contributes to approaches for diabetic patients.

"We have intervened in several things that have increased, such as diabetes, maybe the numbers are much higher if we don't intervene," he said.

Dante hopes that the activities of the 2023 SKI Technical Coordination Meeting at the Ministry of Health Building today can produce specific parameters that will be added to the SKI, so that it will strengthen data in Indonesia.