Kinerja Sanitarian Puskesmas

Healthy and hygienic water program is implemented to fulfill public access to hygienic water, not only in quantity but also the quality of hygienic water consumed by public. This study aim is to describe performance of sanitation officer in community health center and factors related in Solok District in 2007. This study used qualitative method by in-depth interview, focus group discussion and observation; informant is sanitation officer in community health center, which was source-triangulated with the head of community health center and head of PL and PKM of District Health Office. Low performance of sanitation officer was reflected in low coverage, low frequency of counseling, low frequency of community training, low frequency of water monitoring, information system program was not functioned well. Factors which are important on sanitation officer performance include: less ability and skill of sanitation officer, less supervision of district and community health center head, less training frequency of sanitation officer and the need is not matched, low motivation of sanitation officer, less reward and operational fund, many extra jobs, facility and basic facility are not adequate, less program priority by head of community health center, access to several working areas is not good especially in the isolated sub-district, and budget policy of District Health Office which is not prioritizing sufficient budget for health and hygienic water program. Key words: Healthy and hygienic water program, sanitation officer, hygienic water