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PERAN KADER KESEHATAN DALAM PROMOSI PENCEGAHAN KOMPLIKASI HIPERTENSI DI WILAYAH PERKOTAAN: LITERATUR REVIEW
Hypertension have been a trend of urban health problems. One of prevention hypertension’s complications is to assist in families by community health workers. Community health nurses have a role to provide community health workers assistance and supervision. The partnership do implementation between nurse and community health worker to manage the Health City’s program in Indonesia. However, the phenomenon occurring in Indonesia shows a lack of support given for community health workers to be involved in implementing health promotion. This literature review describes the involvement of community health workers to prevention of complications of hypertension in the community. This study uses the literature review method by using search on online database in Cambridge Core e- resources, Wiley Online, and ScienceDirect with the publication period of articles from 2008-2018. The result of literature search show 15 articles that focused on the role of community health workers to prevention of hypertensive complications. The studies show that the community health worker have been effective to prevent hypertension’s complications. The involvement of community health workers can be done by providing self-management assistance to improve healthy lifestyle, such as motivating physical activities and limiting salt consumption. In general, the chosen community health workers are women, willing to be involved in health promotion efforts, and be able to communicate and make a report. The ability of community health nurses is needed to provide and maximize community empowerment.
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