The Influence of the Role of Stakehoders to Healthy Homes in Efforts to Achieve Healthy City in Medan

Abstract

One of the regional development pillars is human resources. The quality of human resources is determined by healthy level that can be achieved by developing healthy homes which is one of the indicators of a healthy city. The stakeholders have a very important role to develop the healthy city. The main objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the role of government, community and private sectors towards healthy home in achieving healthy city in Medan, and the specific objectives are to analyze the public’s knowledge about healthy homes and healthy city, to evaluate the existence of healthy homes, and to explore qualitatively the role of government, public and private towards healthy home.The study was a survey with quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results showed public's knowledge about healthy home in good category is 63%, and for healthy city in good category is 57.8%.  Only 35% of the public perception of the role of government is good, 75,5% of public perception of the role of community is good and 87.5% of the public perception of the role of the private states bad. Only 30% of healthy home that met indicator requirement as healthy house. The public perception of the role of government have positive and significant impact, especially in terms of the role for planning and evaluation of healthy home in Medan.Qualitatively the role of government is not good enough, the government had not implemented as a facilitator, catalyst and coordinator optimally.  The role of public in planning, implementation, utilization and evaluation of results was still not good because it was not facilitated and coordinated by the government, as well as the role of the private sector in terms of financing, community empowerment and direct participation.The government of Medan is expected to be able to put together a program of healthy home in RPJMD (Masterplan of City Development) by involving related SKPD (Government Technical Departments) and facilitating the formation of Healthy City Forum which involves the role of community and private sectors, and coordinating CSR program of the private sectors, as well as be able to create a pilot project for the development of healthy homes in the districts that unhealthy homes categorized.

Keywords: The role of stakeholder, healthy city, healthy home