Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat Belajar dari Lapangan - Public Health learning from fields

The book is written with a longing for the science of knowledge between theory and practice to be easy and down to earth. The foundations of Public Health Science are written in the early chapters that illustrate how epidemiology sees the distribution of diseases by person, place and time. How does Public Health's basic thinking reveal disease, recognize problems and exercise control over it. The next chapter presents some Extraordinary Events about how to investigate and report and control. Death and pain experienced by the community is an expensive experience and priceless knowledge, so we learn from the field. This book gives a real example of what happens in Paniai district. Not a few health problems are limited due to ignorance, belief or culture, because the isolation of people lives in distant places, and must use aircraft to reach the area - the area. The unavailable health worker, Tribal War is still common. On the other hand the safety factor is also felt. Not infrequently extreme natural factors such as the  rainy season brings diarrhea and famine due to the crops of rotting crops. But along with the time and commitment of a stronger pro-people by government, some of these factors have started better.
If you want to change then the way must also be different or changed from the habit, there are no different results in the same way. It takes thought out of box. This book summarizes Proactive Health Seeking Behavior Theory, making a different view where seeking health care generally only looks from the patient or community side, but this paper also looks at the provider or health service side. How the two poles between the patient and the health service are mobilized and reunited. Health workers  should not only serve at public health centres  should move to reach the community and mobilize the community to get involved by using local wisdom. Some recent research results on Hepatitis, Avian Influenza and Surveys including leprosy and Yaws.
Integrated Biological Behavior complements this book. This article can be read by the public, students of Public Health Sciences, medical students, can be a source of further reading and research. More than that the author wants us to appreciate a culture when the culture is entering the process of change because of new developments in society, population competition and other causes.