A number of Health Ambassador attendees are taking a test in the Alana Hotel ballroom on Friday (9/9/2022). The test is carried out by working on the questions provided in the link to the page, and can be opened via the smartphone of each participant. – (VoiceJogja.id/Uli Febriarni Contributor)
After administrative selection, many candidates for the selection of Health Ambassadors have much more diverse backgrounds than in previous years.
SuaraJogja.id – The Sleman Health Office (Dinkes) applies rigorous screening to select young people who pass the elections Health Ambassador Sleman Regency 2022.
The Sub Coordinator of Health Promotion at the Health Office (Dinkes) of Sleman Cahya Prihantama revealed that there have been various selections applied in the selection of the Health Ambassador 2022. Starting from administrative selection, medical tests, psychotests, interviews and even HIV / AIDS tests. This HIV test is a conscious choice and the committee does not apply this test.
After administrative selection, many candidates for the selection of Health Ambassadors have much more diverse backgrounds than in previous years. And this year, young people who move on to the next stage of selection are known to have a good background, not only in schools, universities, but also in community activities.
“There is a child from the medical school of a university, but we have not passed it. Administration. The home is a great consideration for us, the person concerned is not domiciled in Sleman Regency,” he said on Friday (9 / 10/2022).
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Failure to pass potential participants from the healthcare sector is not without reason. The domicile in fact becomes a large enough calculation for the committee. Because many Health Ambassador activities will take place in the Sleman Regency area. If they are not domiciled on self-sufficient land, it is feared that they could create a series of obstacles in the performance of their functions in the future if they are elected Health Ambassadors.
Knowing that there are many different backgrounds from the participants, the Office of Health believes that the health ambassadors of 2022 will be young people who will have new and different perspectives than the generation above them. Generations far above them tend to be normative in health promotion. Meanwhile, the dynamics of contemporary youth have many ways and channels for promoting health.
“Which is obviously more understandable, accepted by young people like them,” he explained.
The duties of health ambassadors become heavy over the years
Head of the public health section at the Sleman (Dinkes) Health Office Esti Kurniasih revealed that another selection applied was mental health tests. He believes that without a mental health test, health ambassadors who have been elected in previous years have good mental health and can also perform well.
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It just needs to be acknowledged, mental health is becoming more and more of a concern in the current era. The Health Office also feels the need to know the mental health of the participants as a global condition. Because mental health resides within, something that is not physically visible.
Furthermore, the task of being a Health Ambassador becomes more and more difficult every year. They not only promote the prevention of communicable diseases, but also of non-communicable diseases.
Therefore, in addition to various individually assigned tests, participants were tested for their knowledge and activity in targeted discussions in a series of workshops. They will be divided into groups, this group will also have different members in each session. In this discussion they will know the scope of the initiative, the motivation and knowledge of the participants.
Resource people in the workshop, ranging from experts, professionals, academics and influencers. The speakers provided information on health problems and the role of younger generations, personal image and social media, public communication and practice. They also received a seminar on the role of the younger generation in controlling cigarette consumption.
“Finally, because we also really want to carry out the duties of the Health Ambassador in promoting the Smoke-Free Healthy Family Movement Program (Gas Bro). Also, one of the determinants of stunting is smoking. And the Regent of Sleman is currently very involved in reducing the stunting, Germas and Gas brother, “he said.
Gasbro aims to increase literacy and socialize the health dangers of smoking. The reason is that smoking in the Sleman Regency community is very concerning, she said. The results of the survey conducted Sleman Health Office in 2015-2021 he observed, out of a total of 8,000 samples of children aged between 10 and 18 years in Sembada Earth, 10.5% of them were already smokers.
“Smoking behavior is one of the risk factors for many noncommunicable diseases,” he explained.
Smoking must be stopped immediately. Factors that drive adolescents to become smokers, among others, because their family background or association is a smoker and exposure to cigarette advertising.
“The behavior of smoking is difficult to stop, because the target is teenagers, we have activated peer counselors, this Health Ambassador is one of them. We hope this can be an example,” he said.
The use of the sash for the Health Ambassador 2022 during the Grand Finale will be carried out directly by the Regent of Sleman Kustini Sri Purnomo, on Sunday (9/11/2022).
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