The concept of public participation in community health promotion

Abstract

             The public participation in community health promotion is a systematic process of the people^,s thinking and decision making in order to develop community health system to be strong and efficient with relevant agencies to provide advice. The participation creating will make the people feel the health ownership, enthusiastic about developing a community health system. As a result that the people can finally solved the community health problems. The development and promotion of public participation in community health can be done by raising public awareness by providing clear information, consulting to opinions for decision making, work involvement, building cooperation of all sectors for decision making and joint activities and empowering peoples to make decisions in the health promotion process. The process of creating public participation in community health promotion consists of 5 steps, team building, raising awareness of community health problems, planning to solve community health problems, actions to solve community health problems and continuous evaluation and action. When the people make continue to complete all 5 steps of the process this will result in the community having a sustainable health forever.