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.
