Background: A study to analyze data of Basic Health Research 2010 (Riskesdas 2010) was done to describe the profile of household using self-made herbal medicines and to identify the characteristics of household members that related to use of self-made herbal medicines. Methods: The sampel was individuals aged fifteen years old or more and who use self-made herbal medicine i.e. 177,927 people fr…
Background: Advertising control of medicine and traditional medicine was based on the Decree of the Minister of Healthof Indonesia Number 386/Menkes/SK/IV/ 1994 about advertising guidelines medicine, traditional medicine, cosmetics, medical devices and foods. The purpose of the study are (1) to identify regulations related to the advertising of medicine and traditional medicine, (2) to identify…
Traditional healers ingredients to take part in increased of public health. Therefore to find traditional healers ingredients base data to used for to treat, carry out cross-sectional design survey at three provinces those Southeast Sulawesi, South Kalimantan and Lampung with totally sample 48 every province. The results survey of traditional healers profile showed capacity sources of man in S…
Traditional practitioners Pengobatan Tradisional (Battra( are becoming parts of health care services, and are used to overcome certain health problems in rural areas as well as in urban. However, there is not enough nation wide data of how wide data of how wide are traditional practices being utilized by the population. Further analysis using the nationwide Riskesdas-2007 data is conducted to d…
A study on diabetes melitus was conducted in DKI Jakarta, and Surabaya,The respondents were the patients who went to the traditional healers (dukun and sinshe). Data colection was conducted through interview using questionnaire and also in depth interview to the respondents. The results of the study showed that most of the respondents did not believe that diabetes melitus was caused either by b…
Tradisional healer’s (Battra have a role to improve the degree of public health. To identify the existence of traditioanal healer’s ingredients to device the various of ingredients for therapy and to find the possible failure of application, the survey of traditional healder’s ingredients was conducted in Bali. The results showed the existence of traditional healer’s and various ingredi…