INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL CHARACTERISTIC TO HEALTH SERVICES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF CHILDREN HEALTH

Abstract

Health issues are always related with environment condition. Regarding urban context, city has a
double burden diseases in addition to infectious diseases as well as for degenerative diseases because life’s pattern
in city increasingly aggravating. Environmental risk factors are related to the type of diseases, evidently. Hence,
in realization these several kind of diseases is not comparable and proportional to the number and coverage of
health services. In particular children health, their growth is very sensitive to environment exposures. So
environment factors could be the important aspects that consider with the children activities. At least, it happened
in Depok City, one of middle city where close to the capital city of Indonesia. Through this research we would
like to see the relevance of urban spatial elements especially the environmental aspects with the health risk factors
of children compared to the number of health services and their coverage. In addition, we will also conduct spatial
mapping of Depok City against the risk factors of children's health on the urban environment. The methodology
that we used was a mix method between qualitative through FGD and quantitative including GIS. Based on the
findings, it is known that the health risk including children due to the decrease of environmental character in Depok
is divided into three classes that are dominated in high risk class. However, health facilities such as hospitals,
Puskesmas (small hospitals), treatment services are low in coverage. This suggests that there is less integration
between the spatial characteristics of the region and urban planning specifically related to health issues.