Kekuatan Kearifan Lokal Dalam Komunikasi Kesehatan

Jurnal Komunikator, Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2011, p. 234-243So far, traditional medicines and traditional treatments are often underestimated and considered outdated or sometimes even considered to exacerbate an illness. When in fact, medicines and the traditional ways in healing the disease, they helped the healing. The local knowledge possessed by the people of Indonesia, has many positive sides, including in health. We can use traditional medicines and traditional ways to treat disease. Unfortunately, knowledge of local wisdom is not widely taught in schools and in health higher education. Knowledge of local wisdom, culture, and the approach to local society is less focus of the study, whereas these three things actually become urgency for students in health education. Therefore, in this paper we will discuss about the medical necessity to know the local wisdom of the local society; the medical necessity of respecting and using local wisdom to support public health; and the need for a curriculum that supports the medical order to learn about and appreciate local wisdom and use wisdom to support local public health. The intended curriculum is the curriculum of cultural and intercultural communication