Faculty of Nursing Universitas Indonesia collaborates with Yayasan Baitul Maal Perusahaan Listrik Negara (YBM PLN) in a program to improve health and wellbeing of an underprivileged community. The theme carried was “Improving Health Quality and Productivity of Underprivileged Community in Curug Village during the Covid-19 Pandemic”. This activity is a part of FoN UI’s commitment to contribute to the health and welfare of the surrounding environment. This program is conducted by lecterures and students from professional and specialist study programs. The strategy used in this program is community nursing practice including group process, health education, capacity building, and family/community empowerment.

Several activities are carried out in the form of education outreach activities using community nursing practice, the activities held are

1. Preventing and treating diabetes with fiber, and activity and relaxation program for the eldery;
2. ‘Parents, health workers, care givers, and cadres synergize in nutrition management at toddler hearth’. A program in achieving responsive feeding at the toddler hearth, programmed for underprivileged families;
3. Self-care movement program for underprivileged adults with diabetes mellitus;
4. Finding identity in active and independent adolescents, a program in improving life skills and self-management in underprivileged adolescents with risky sexual behavior problems;
5. ‘Healthy Elderly, Controlled Hypertension’, a program for underprivileged elderly;
6. A program on diabetes self-management; and
7. A program on anxiety management using 5-finger hypnosis and music therapy.

Improving Health Quality and Productivity of Underprivileged Community in Curug Village during the Covid-19 Pandemic https://nursing.ui.ac.id/peduli-warga-kurang-mampu-fikui-tingkatkan-kualitas-kesehatan-warga-kelurahan-curug