{"id":248,"date":"2013-05-07T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T05:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T03:02:39","slug":"community-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/work\/community-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Community\u202d \u202chealth services\u202d \u202ccan empower people to be\u202d \u202cparticipants\u202d \u202cin their own health,\u202d \u202cleading to greater independence and increased quality of life.\u202d<\/strong> \u202cWhere possible,\u202d \u202cSEEDS aims to\u202d \u202cwork within existing\u202d \u202chealthcare\u202d \u202csystems,\u202d \u202cworking to inform people about the health services that they are entitled to and support them to access these services.\u202d \u202cWhere appropriate,\u202d \u202ccomplementary prevention and\u202d \u202ceducational health\u202d \u202cservices\u202d \u202care\u202d \u202calso provided.<\/p>\n<h2>Community health service in Riau<\/h2>\n<p>SEEDS members partnering with local charity Yayasan Pendar Pagi (YPP) have established a community health service in a\u202d \u202crelatively isolated\u202d \u202crural area of Riau,\u202d \u202cSumatra,\u202d \u202cpromoting\u202d \u202chealth and disease prevention as well as providing basic\u202d \u202cmedical\u202d \u202ctreatment.\u202d \u202cNursing services are provided house-to-house,\u202d \u202ctypically dealing with patients with hypertension,\u202d \u202cfevers,\u202d \u202cvarious types of chronic pain,\u202d \u202cwounds,\u202d \u202cskin conditions,\u202d \u202cand\u202d \u202cdental\u202d \u202ccavities.\u202d \u202cA number of chronic care patients\u202d \u202care supported regularly,\u202d \u202cproviding respite for their families,\u202d \u202cand where appropriate funding is made available to help with specific medical needs.<\/p>\n<h2>Community health service in\u202d \u202cDKI Jakarta<\/h2>\n<p>SEEDS\u202d \u202cmembers in\u202d \u202cJakarta\u202d \u202cpartnering with local charity Yayasan Pendar Pagi (YPP) provide a medical service based out of\u202d \u202ca community centre in a densely populated inner city area.\u202d \u202cThe service is\u202d \u202cfocused\u202d \u202con community health,\u202d \u202cwhich includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General health consultations twice a week\u202d \u202cat the\u202d \u202ccommunity centre<\/li>\n<li>Special weekly consultations for patients with hypertension,\u202d \u202cdiabetes,\u202d \u202cand high cholesterol<\/li>\n<li>Visits to several\u202d \u202cparticularly poor\u202d \u202ccommunities\u202d \u202cboth\u202d \u202cnear the community centre and\u202d \u202cin other parts of the city,\u202d \u202coffering health consultations for residents on the spot<\/li>\n<li>One-off free clinics in different locations conducted in partnership with local doctors<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy in helping the poor gain access to local health services<\/li>\n<li>A discretionary fund for pregnant women in need of a caesarian section delivery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community\u202d \u202chealth services\u202d \u202ccan empower people to be\u202d \u202cparticipants\u202d \u202cin their own health,\u202d \u202cleading to greater independence and increased quality of life.\u202d \u202cWhere possible,\u202d \u202cSEEDS aims to\u202d \u202cwork within existing\u202d \u202chealthcare\u202d \u202csystems,\u202d \u202cworking to inform people about the health services that they are entitled to and support them to access these services.\u202d \u202cWhere appropriate,\u202d \u202ccomplementary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":289,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions\/623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}