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Infant Mortality Based on Causes, Age, Place and Referral Case High Risk in East Sumba District Mariana Ngundju Awang; Diyan Maria Kristin
Health Notions Vol 5, No 8 (2021): August
Publisher : Humanistic Network for Science and Technology (HNST)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33846/hn50806

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Maternal mortality can almost certainly also mean death in infants who are conceived or born. Reportedly, 75% of babies born who lost their mothers will die before celebrating their first birthday. East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is one of the regions with the highest infant / neonatal mortality rate in Indonesia, Infant mortality rate in East Sumba is one of the highest in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province and continues to fluctuate in the last five years from 2011 to 2015 and the number is 61 - 99 - 122 - 108 and 99.  The research objective was to identify the cause, age, place of death of infants and referral cases in 2011 – 2015. This type of research was descriptive, cross sectional method, the total population of infant mortality cases in 2011 - 2015 was 30 cases. The sample selection used was simple random considering the time and funds as well as access to the respondent's location so that the latest infant mortality data in 2015, for which data exists, parents still remember the incident. Collection using a questionnaire for mothers / fathers / families with midwives in the village and coordinating midwives who handle ANC and case referrals. The data were processed and analyzed descriptively. The cause of infant mortality over the last 5 years in East Sumba district was 66.7% Pneumonia, as many as 46.7 percent of infants died at the age of 1 month. Based on the place of infant mortality, 80 percent of infants died at home because they were not referred and 20 percent died in PHC or Hospital for late referral. Keywords: infant mortality; risk factors; East Sumba 
Assessment of Men's Role on Mother Care when Pregnant, Birth and Breastfeeding Mariana Ngundju Awang
Health Notions Vol 2, No 11 (2018): November
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Background: The maternal mortality rate (MMR) in East Sumba is one of the highest in the province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) for the past five years (2011-2015). Maternal mortality in East Sumba District is 76.7% occurred during childbirth and 23.3% during pregnancy. The Sumba tribe is based on patriaki culture which prioritizes men as the masters. Male participation is very small, but their control of women in deciding for women to use contraceptives or not very dominant. Methods: The type of research used was qualitative research by means of in-depth interviews and FGDs on 20 respondents. Results: Men were very instrumental in helping their wives from becoming pregnant, giving birth and breastfeeding according to cultural figures, customs, husbands and wives. Conclusion: The role of men when pregnant wives prepare themselves as prospective fathers by following the development of pregnancy and supporting the preparation of childbirth, when the wife gives birth to accompany the wife before and during childbirth by giving motivation to face the pain, struggle to give birth to the baby, and when breastfeeding wife Supports the success of breastfeeding, especially exclusive breastfeeding Keywords: Male role, East Sumba culture, Traditional figure, Religious figure
Study of Gender Injustice Based on Women's Role as Mother, Wife and Household in The District of Amabi Oefeto, Kupang District Mariana Ngundju Awang
Health Notions Vol 3, No 11 (2019): November
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Background: The reality shows that women experience more disadvantages or disadvantages compared to men in the fields of education, health, employment, mastery and use of science and technology. According to the National Commission on Violence Against Women, the number of cases of violence against women tends to increase from year to year, and reaches more than 348,446 cases of violence against women reported and dealt with during 2017 and perpetrators in the Personal / Private Domain. Method: The type of research used in this study was qualitative research with phenomenological studies of gender injustice variables based on the role of women as mothers, wives and housewives. The information were married women, religious leaders. A number of 20 community and traditional figure with the FGD method and interviews used structured questions compiled by the researchers. Results: Gender inequality is related to the reproductive role of women as mothers, naturally it is true that they carry out this role but there have been changes or shifts where women also carry out gender roles instead men as husbands still assume that women primarily do natural roles but there are also husbands who say women can do other work to support domestic life. The productive role of women as wives has played a role in the public sector but is generally limited to consumption privately and family. The social role of housewives is always involved in community social affairs in the village, only now there are almost no mutual cooperation activities carried out such as In the past, now everyone did work in private in the household. There were and often happened because men felt power and control over women, consider women as helpers who have to do all the work because they have been bought at an expensive price. Men and women alike work both in homes, gardens, fields or fields that the results are enjoyed with the family or can even be sold to buy other necessities in the household such as coffee, sugar, soap and others that are not at home Keywords: gender injustice; reproductive; social roles of women