An Indonesian community based health post program, whose name is short for Pos Pelayanan Terpadu, or Integrated Service Post, run at the village level and endorsed as national policy since 1984. Each Posyandu is staffed by trained volunteer community health workers called kaders and typically serves around 100 children under five, or about 700 residents, holding monthly sessions that cover five core services: family planning, maternal and child health, immunization, child nutrition monitoring and diarrhea management. By 2018 Indonesia had more than 173,000 active Posyandu posts and over 500,000 trained kaders, and a 2014 Ministry of Health report credited the program's work with helping raise basic childhood immunization coverage to 87 percent.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyMinistry of Health (MOH), Indonesia 1 Target PopulationChildren under five and their surrounding community, roughly 100 children or 700 people per posyandu unit 1 Health GoalDecrease infant and child mortality, improve family planning acceptance, improve nutrition, and empower the community 1 Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
Sources
1. CHW Central: Indonesia's Community Health Workers (Kaders)
CHW Central (community health worker programs knowledge platform)Establishment paragraph
In the mid-1980s, the Posyandu Program was formally recognized by the MOH.
Program goals paragraph
The program's goal was to decrease infant and child mortality, improve FP acceptance, improve nutrition, and empower the community through community health activities.
Target population and scale paragraph
Each posyandu serves approximately 100 children younger than 5 years of age or about 700 persons in the community.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Each Posyandu is staffed by trained volunteer community health workers called kaders and typically serves around 100 children under five, or about 700 residents, holding monthly sessions that cover five core services: family planning, maternal and child health, immunization, child nutrition monitoring and diarrhea management.
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