TY - JOUR AU - Limbong, Theresia AU - Lontaan, Anita AU - Umar, Syaniah PY - 2016/12/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Effect of Pregnant Women in Class Activity to Knowledge Increase in Caring Pregnancy, Delivery, Postpartum and Newborn in Batua Health Centre Makassar JF - International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) JA - IJSBAR VL - 30 IS - 5 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/6679 SP - 98-105 AB - <p>In order to reduce maternal mortality rate in Indonesia, the government has launched a program of Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS) since 2000. One of the MPS strategy is to encourage the empowerment of women and the family. The expected output of the strategy is to establish the husband's involvement in promoting maternal health and increasing active role of the family in pregnancy and childbirth. In order to improve the knowledge of pregnant women about maternal and child health, have conducted health education of mothers and children through individual consultations during the antenatal or at Posyandu activities, but not optimal because the knowledge gained mothers confined to health problems experienced during the consultation. One effort to overcome the weaknesses of the established activities of the study groups of pregnant women who referred to a class of pregnant women. The aim of research to determine the effect of pregnant women classroom activities with an approach different methods to increase knowledge about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum and newborn babies before and after intervention in Batua Regional Health Center, ER -