Journal of Saintech Transfer (JST) Vol. III, No. 2, 2020 | 137-142
JST
Journal of Saintech Transfer
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Community Empowerment towards Healthy Living
through The Implementation of Healthy Living
Community Movements (GERMAS)
Fazidah A Siregar *, Asfriyati, Lita Sri Andayani
Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, 20155, North Sumatera, Indonesia
Abstract. Indonesia is currently facing a triple burden of disease where the incidence
of non-communicable diseases is increasing. The condition is related to lifestyle
include lack of physical activity, an unhealthy and unbalanced diet, and unhealthy
lifestyle as smoking and alcohol consumption. To educate the community to
implement healthy living, GERMAS is being promoted, emphasizing promotive and
preventive efforts. The purpose of these activities was to educate and mobilize the
community to implement healthy living by implementing GERMAS that focuses on
physical activities, consuming vegetables and fruit, and checking health regularly.
From the health status monitoring, 15.6% of participants were in the systolic
prehypertension stage, and 34.4% were in the systolic hypertension stage, 19.0% with
high cholesterol levels, 43.8% with high uric acid levels and 21.9% with high blood
sugar levels. This activity was continued by giving education about balanced and
healthy food, routine physical activities during three months and the use of their yards
for planting vegetables and fruit and motivating the communities for consuming the
healthy food daily. After three months, the health condition improved in which the
number of participants with systolic hypertension and high blood sugar levels
decreased to 30% and 12.5%, respectively. It was concluded that the implementation
of healthy life society movement daily could reduce the biological risk factors leading
to the reduction of non-communicable disease incidence.
Keywords: Community empowerment, Healthy living, Germas
Abstrak. Indonesia saat ini menghadapi beban penyakit tiga kali lipat di mana insiden
penyakit tidak menular meningkat. Penyakit ini terkait dengan gaya hidup termasuk
kurangnya aktivitas fisik, diet yang tidak sehat dan tidak seimbang, dan gaya hidup
yang tidak sehat seperti merokok dan konsumsi alkohol. Dalam upaya untuk mendidik
masyarakat untuk menerapkan hidup sehat, GERMAS sedang dipromosikan dengan