MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE.

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the effects of planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling functions in the implementation of community health cares. The samples of this research were representatives of public health centers in South Sulawesi Province. They involved 82 health-care institutions. Data collection used questionnaires that were directly distributed to respondents. Moreover, this research applied Partial Least Square (PLS) approach to analyze data. As the result, this research indicated that the management function that consisted of planning, organizing, and actuating had an effect on the implementation of community health care, while controlling had no effect on the implementation of community health care. Copy Right, IJAR, 2018,. All rights reserved. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Introduction:-Today, the government concerns on improving the welfare of families and communities. The healthy degree of family and community is strongly affected by community's healthy manners (McKenzie, 2010). These have been arranged by WHO on the basis of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Moreover, the community health center is a functional organization that encourages community participation on being healthy as well as provides comprehensive and integrated services for the community. Its management involves planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling. These management functions are interrelated and implemented on the ongoing basis (Ministry of Health, 2015). Furthermore, the basic health services for public are attempted through health care obligation and development. One of the health care advancement was the community health care program. According to Anyika (2014), the poor quality of a public health care system will influence its institution performance. Therefore, this study argued that the enforcement of public health care would influence the performance of a public health center. Theoretical Review Management is a social practice to implement plans to achieve organizational goals. It involves essential roles of a particular community to respond their positions toward management functions (Suarli and Bahtiar, 2009. The management function was originally identified by Henri Fayol including planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling. The management function also refers to a managerial process that includes planning, organizing, staffing, direction, and supervision (Marquis and Huston, 2010). Theoretically, management process is divided into five phases: planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling (Marquis and Huston, 2010).