This paper examines the striking discrepancy between formal conceptutilizations of what nurses in health centers ought to do and their actual activities using material from a two-years qualitative research in Central Java. During the research, it intrigued me that my observation of health centre nurses corresponded only to a limited extent, if at all, to the general assumption that the role of…
The safe motherhood initiative was launched in 1987 in an International effort to focus on the reduction of maternal mortality and propose strategics to reduce it. By the end of Pelita VI, the Government of Indonesia has committed its policy to reduce the current maternal mortality rate by half. Hence research to reduce define the most appropriate and cost-effective ways to reduce maternal morb…