Keywords
non-communicable disease
Singkil
Abstract
Posbindu PTM is an integrated health service that is organized as an effort to empower public health. The Posbindu held in Singkil Padukuhan Gunungkidul is a program for the elderly as a response of the organizers to the conditions which occur in the elderly population in Singkil to provide their needs related to health service. Posbindu implementation methods carried out by the organizers are in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and observation methods. This method was used to obtain qualitative data. From the examinations that have been carried out by the organizers and health cadres of Singkil, the results obtained are 52 patients who were examined with the types of examinations including height, weight, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and a history of the disease that the participants had suffered. The results of BMI data showed that 18 participants were in the normal category, 26 were underweight, 5 were overweight, 3 data were unknown. As for the results of the examination of hypertension data, 25 participants were included in the category of hypertension grade 2, 16 hypertension grade 1, 10 pre-hypertension and 1 normal participant