Policy Analysis of Integrated Antenatal Care implementation at Public Health Centers in Blitar City

摘要

Backgrounds: Integrated antenatal care as one of key program in screening maternal and child health services is started antenatal to puerperium phase and it is essential to protect complications during both antenatal and postnatal phases. Access to antenatal care (fi rst ANC to fourth ANC) has became providers key strategies in order to decrease missed opportunities of pregnant women that it can be implicated toward services quality and caused by increasing MMR and IMR in Blitar City. The purpose of this study was to analize of policy implementation for Integrated Antenatal Care services at Sananwetan, Kepanjen kidul, and Sukorejo Public Health Centers. Methods: A qualitative study with purposive design. Method for policy analysis used “a health policy triangle framework” (Walt & Gilson, 1994). Results: Lack of the role of policy actors in fi elds to bridge among integrated antenatal care services program, midwives, lab analyst and provider. Integrated Antenatal care Services are concerned with physical examinations conducted by Midwives and are concerned with laboratorium test both routine and medical indications conducted by laboratory analyst. Lack of technical training for midwives and lab analyst. Conclusion: Inter Sectoral partnership for policy actors in implementing integrated antenatal care of Health Centers were lack and ranning partially. Lack of availability of laboratory facilities and USG to exam pregnant womens. Local Government Regulation regarding general services retributions are concerned routine lab and medical indications examinations is not yet for the poor peoples. Recommendation: The masive role of policy actors in Blitar City through inter sectoral partnership involving policy review, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated antenatal care for health centers are sustainable. Budgetting in APBD and other sources to enhance laboratorium facilities and USG at three Health Centers based on types of laboratory and medical devices. Integrated antenatal care strengthening through technicals training are especially midwives and laborium analysts in developing midwives in obstetrics and medical examination competencies. We need a limited revision of regulation clauses. It is clauses of routine lab examination and medical indications free for every poor womens that conduct lab examinations.