Ninth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Reducing maternal mortality rate is the hardest problem not only in Indonesia but also in most countries in the world (Edna, 2011). Every year, around 20,000 women in Indonesia experience death because of complications in labor (Stalker 2008). There are six most common causes of this problem: bleeding 42%, eclampsia 13%, abortion 12%, infection 10%, prolonged labor 9%, and other causes 15% (Rachman 2007). Lack of knowledge and low literacy on health particularly about the importance of periodic checks is one of the contributing factors bearing this challenge. Other problems related to biological, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural context may worsen the health status of pregnant women. Therefore, an effort to reduce maternal mortality rate is inevitably needed. Mentoring program is one of the viable solutions to tackle this problem and will help to eradicate health illiteracy as health education is a basic need for pregnant women. This program is designated for Indonesian women with the sense of strong cultural, social, and spiritual concept. The mentoring process will be in collaboration with healthcare providers and local leader to persuade pregnant women and to maximise the involvement. The purpose of this study is to explore the successful opportunity of a mentoring program. The method used is direct observation and study literature; the direct observation is used to get the main problem from the primary data, while study literature is used to determine the problem solving according to theories related to Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), childbirth complications, mentoring concept, and holistic care.