The Maternal And Infant Health Status Behavior Based On Cultural Aspects In Mandailing Natal (Madina) Sumatera Utara

Abstract

Madina is one of the Sumatera Utara’s regions which have a high mortality rate of mothers’ and babies. The health care status among families in Indonesia affected by the culture including in Madina. It guides the community to decide the health care treatment for their family members including mother and babies. The type of research is qualitative with deep interview in data collection. The sample was the cultural community leaders and the pregnant women with culture beliefs. The information gathered from pregnant women are crosscheck with the cultural community leaders opinion, thus the samples selected for this research are 9 participants. The result showed that : maternal care, post partum, and infant care. In fact, it revealed that the behavior of Madina’s community is still focus on culture for the treatment of pregnancy, parturition, childbirth and newborn baby. In addition, the findings also showed that there are culture with benefit and culture without benefit on health care. Therefore, it is needed to establish a community based health care with local culture background in community. It is an obligation for the health workers to understand the issue for community health care improvement in future.