Writing a Book Illustrating the Complexities and Obstacles of Indonesia’s Pediatric Healthcare

The allure in the medical field had existed in me since grade school, engraving the belief in me that I would become a doctor. However, amongst all specialties, pediatrics was always foreign. As a privileged teenager, I realized I never had to worry about yearly checkups or vaccines, I assumed it was a bare necessity the country provided. Guilt sprouted when seeing that Indonesian children were unable to afford healthcare. It embedded the perception that the healthcare system had flaws that were failing Indonesia’s children.

I aim to investigate the common diseases in children and their accessibility to pediatric care in Indonesia. Then create a book exploring ways to prevent these diseases and improve healthcare quality in pediatrics. As a highly challenging goal, comprehensive research must be executed with varieties of healthcare professionals, limited by virtue of Covid-19, and with adequate journalism. Since the book targets Indonesia’s entire pediatric healthcare system, it is arduous to recognize only one flaw.

The decision behind this project is to augment my commitment to my future career path and gain a meticulous understanding of issues I potentially face as a physician. With research skills, the book elucidates challenges and diseases in pediatric healthcare from multiple perspectives to advocate fairness and development in equal health opportunities and preventative measures for children and parents.

Global Context

This project revolves around the global context Fairness and Development, a concept fixating on the betterment of humanity. It delves into the strands rights and responsibilities and access to equal opportunities. The extent to which it is explored becomes a core component measuring the goal’s success. Often, pediatric healthcare is not accessible to impoverished communities, withdrawing the rights of a child’s medical needs. In turn, I investigate the responsibilities of governors and health-workers in providing equal and qualitative healthcare and how effective these implementations are to innovate the system. Studying the challenges and diseases in pediatrics gives room for future implementations targeting development, which corresponds to creating fairness for the children in Indonesia.

Product

I created a personal rubric that will help me to better evaluate my product as the preexisting rubrik is not specific enough to accurately judge my product. The new rubric that I created is competent enough to evaluate my product accurately. In my rubrik I put three criteria that will judge the different areas of my product. As my product mainly focuses on writing, art and design. These criteria could be measured by having peer reviews and making multiple copies of my product and a copy of my rubric and by me reading my own product.

See my book below!

Reflection

Despite having a treasured passion for healthcare equality, I never understood the true essence of fairness and development until my project. I started this as the first step in augmenting my commitment to becoming a physician, assuming the technicalities of medicinal practice would all be provided by the system, yet through this project, I have fathomed the responsibility of physicians in initiating action to make healthcare accessible, which I will consider when choosing my future career path. The project has additionally exemplified the ATL skills thinking, social, communication, research, and self-management. Testing my resilience, writing the book has taught me various troubleshooting systems such as graphic organizers, acting as an extension towards my thinking and self-management skills, and additionally flourished skills in writing and organizing non-fiction.

Though phrased separately, I recognized the interconnectedness between fairness and development. Encountering embryonic aspects of the pediatric system, I learned how fairness is achieved through equity, not equality. In my researching phase, the interview with Nurse Febriyani taught me that certain communities need more help than others.

IB Learner Reflection

My growth as an IB learner is measured through my capability in manifesting its profiles. Although the project exhibited growth in all IB learners profiles, thinkers, knowledgeable, and open-minded became most discernible.

The project’s nature elucidates on the formulation of plausible solutions to ensure fairness and development, requiring the profile thinkers to evaluate how realistic these implementations are, as exhibited through my graphic organizers to coordinate ideas. Furthermore, I grow my thinking skills when utilizing troubleshooting systems to tackle personal obstacles, such as lack of organization and concentration concerns, experimenting with a variety of methods to see what works best, serving as an extension to my self-management skills.

Flourishing the profile knowledgeable became conspicuous throughout my research phase. Prior to the project, I had minuscule knowledge of pediatric healthcare inequalities. My interviews with the healthcare workers, reading WHO’s health assessments, and reviewing multiple academic pieces of research, all subsidies the surge in an understanding of the topic from multiple perspectives, both in the public and private sector, attained by blossoming both research and social skills to gain complex knowledge.

Open-mindedness bloomed through my learning to accept critical criticism. Formerly struggling in accepting contrasting perspectives, I realized the critique I received when writing my book improved it, and better suited my criteria after reviewing it from a different perspective. I also encountered a small disagreement of prospect when it came to the bureaucratic system during the interview with pediatricians, but still decided to stay respectful and understanding of their mindset.