Abstract:
Every year Indonesian women die due to obstetric complication. More than 90 percent is caused
bleeding, preeclampsia/eclampsia and infection. It can be effectively prevented if communities are
well informated about emergency signs as well as the provision of qualified health service in
primary care. WHO has developed standard of midwifery service which had been adjusted for its
application in Indonesia. This research was aimed to know the relationship between implementation
of antenatal service standard that was done by village midwife with the incident of anemia. This
was an observational research with historical cohort design. The number of samples in this study
were 40 people. Data were analysed using univariate and bivariate analysis. The result showed that
pregnant mothers who received non standard antenatal service had risk of anemia with OR=3.404
(95% CI: 1.303<OR<8.890). This research showed that pregnant mothers who received non
standard antenatal service had risk of suffering anemia than those with standard antenatal service.
Standardized antenatal service was appropriate to be used in maternal perinatal health service unit.
