RESUME AND JOURNAL

ANALYSIS

"FACTORS OF MEDICINAL USERS AS US ALTERNATIVE

MEDICINAL IN INDONESIA"

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Prepared By:

ISMARIANTI

Advisor:

Dr. Yunita Theresia, SKM, M.Kes.

XXV FORCE MAGISTER STUDY PROGRAM

FOR HEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PALEMBANG
 NATION CITY 2019/2020
Journal Title: "Factors of Medicinal Plants Users as Alternative Medical in
Indonesia"

Volume: Vol.3, No.2, April 2018

Author : Yunita Theresiana, MT Kamaluddin, Sriati, Lili Erina

Subject: Environmental Health

A. Background

Traditional medicines are the cultural heritage of the Indonesian people that must
be preserved and developed to support people's lives, development health and to
improve the people's economy. Based on the Regulation of Government the Republic of
Indonesia No. 08 of 1999, the use of plants is carried out for the benefit of sustainable
use of plants for the prosperity of the community. Plants or parts thereof or products
used while maintaining ecosystem diversity and balance.

Cultural heritage (local wisdom) of medicinal plants can actually be managed

well as a first aid drug to treat various types of diseases, but the properties of these
plants are largely never standardized for use proper. To preserve nature to preserve the
existence of medicinal plants and their healing properties, to enable use of medicinal
plants wider and more common, and to preserve and promote the nation's cultural
heritage, it is necessary to carry out continuous exploration, research, testing and
development of traditional medicines and treatments .

B
.
Purpose of Journal
Writing This

study aims to:

Analyze community behavior based on disease perception, type of complaint, place of

residence, distance to health facilities, health, family support, and promotion of
medicine traditional

C. Method
This research is a non-experimental methods analytic survey and approaches study
cross sectional using questionnaire media in answering questions.

D. Research
results

In this study explained that the perception of disease variables are divided into
four categories: bad, moderate, healthy, and very healthy. seen that from 400
respondents, most of them have healthy perception, that is 243 people (60.8%).
Then 82 respondents (20.5%) felt that their health condition was in a moderate
condition, and the rest of 75 people (18.8%) felt very healthy.

And from the results of the analysis it can be seen that the number of
respondents living in rural areas is more than 64.3% compared to respondents
who are high in the city, which is 143 people (35.8%).

Variable types of complaints are divided into two categories, namely chronic and
acute, can be seen that the number of respondents who stated suffering from
illness acute was greater, namely 222 people (55.5%) compared to respondents
who suffered from chronic diseases, namely 10 people (2.5%), and who did not
know as many as 168 people (42.0%) .

In the variable income have incomes> USD 1,000,000 / month, is 331 people
(82.8 percent) while those earning incomes ≤ Rp 1,000,000 / month there were
69 (17, 3 percent). In the insurance variable can be seen that the number of
respondents who participated in health insurance more, as many as 284 people
(71.0 percent) compared to respondents who were not participants of health
insurance, namely 116 people (29.0 percent) of the 400 respondents studied .

Based on the results of this study, it is known that the average distance to
facilities health is 19.17 minutes. In this study, the variable distance of health
facilities seen that the number of respondents living near facilities health is 273
(68.3%) more than respondents whose homes are far from health facilities,
namely 127 people (31.8%) of 400 respondents surveyed.

in this study, it can be analyzed that the respondents who use traditional
medicine is higher, at 255 (63.8%) compared with those who do not use
traditional medicine, namely 145 (36.3%).
Several factors contribute to the high use of drugs traditional among them is the
distance where the relationship between the distance traveled by the respondent
to a health facility is influential because if the distance to a health facility is far
away then it allows the respondent to use medicinal plants as an treatment
Alternative compared to having to go to a health facility.

Knowledge of traditional medicines is the main determinant for users, individuals

and communities can obtain various forms of information about traditional
medicines from various sources for various reasons. The study also tried to
analyze the various sources from which respondents obtained information about
traditional medicines they used. The analysis showed that the majority of
respondents obtained information about traditional medicines from their family /
friends / contacts.

E.
Conclusion

In this conclusion it can be said that respondents are motivated to use traditional
medicines with (a) predisposing factors, namely illness perceived. (b) supporting
factors, namely economic level, domicile, type of complaint, insurance, and distance to
health facilities, and (c) supporting factors, namely family support and promotion of
traditional medicines. This study found that the factors that act as predictors in the use
of traditional medicines are variables of gender, ethnic group, perceived illness, type of
complaint, distance to health facilities, and promotion of medicine traditional, with
variables of work, insurance, education, family support, domicile, and revenue that
serves as a confounding variable.

F. Research
Analysis

Medicinal plants are very common in Indonesia, most people Indonesian use it as an
alternative medicine for some diseases or just to maintain their health. Many factors
influence the community to choose medicinal plants compared to using chemical drugs
that clearly have side effects in the future including hereditary traditions that have been
passed on from ancestors about the use of medicinal plants themselves. With this, the
government only needs to increase health promotion of medicinal plants so that many
people use medicinal plants as an alternative treatment.