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Chart 3: Health Care Services for Infant.
It can be seen from the chart how the “services from
cradle to grave”—a jargon of how comprehensive
services in the welfare state—is implemented in the
health service system in Japan. The chart explains how
the child is nurtured by the government through the
many services from the mother’s pregnancy until the
baby grows up. Services are free of charge, covered by
the government; thus the mother should not be worried
about the cost of delivering baby. The services are free of
charge because the government has a stable and strong
economic basis. It is very different in Indonesia where
there are many local governments which cannot manage
their resources; and cannot concentrate on delivering
services because they have limited money to spend.
Besides the MCH (maternal and child health) care
services, the function of primary health care centers
also play an important part. Below are four pictures
which show that community education is undertaken
in Primary Health Care Center in Japan.
THE EMPOWERING THE POOR AND VULNERABLE
Picture 1: Community Education before Baby’s
Health Check-Up.
Picture 1.a
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