Leadership Roles Increasing Health Promotors’s Productivity in Pekalongan Distric

Abstract

Background Health Promotion is one of essential program in public health center, which is under responsibility health promotors. Performance indicators of health promotion services include health maternal, family planning, HIV/AIDS and nutritional program for under weight cases. Operationally, health promototion in public health centers to overcome public health problems with prevention and promotion services. Health promotors are important part of health movement campaigns, because they are doing direct relationship with community. Health promotors are also knowing well field situation of communities. Main task of health promotor is delivering health education which its indicator of productivity. Objectives The objectives of this research is knowing the roles of leadership to increase health promotor’s productivity. Methods This is a descriptive research to describe internal and external factors of health promotor’s productivities. Population of this research are health promotors of public health centers in Pekalongan Distric which are 27 persons. Sample size its total population of health promotors. Data collection using quesionaire which contains items of productivitiy indicators and leadership roles questions. Secondary data collected from yearly reports including public health center profiles. Result and discussion Results show that 63 % of health promotors have good productivites, and 63% of respondents perception about leadership are poor. The research strenghthened with triangulation approach to indepth answers of leadership roles and motivation. Discussion Leadership has strong roles to improve health promotor’s productivities which different style to contruct it well.