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for medical assistance. They have felt direcly the
benefits and barriers of shifting from ground water
to rain water. Health behavior changes are through
the form of using rain and gallon water for washing
and consumption, a practice that has been utilized by
many parts of the community except the lower class
society. They also require regular maintainince to
keep, close, and clean reservoir rainwater.
Furthermore, there is an extra expense that needs to
paid for chemical treatment to prevent mosquito
larvae, and for using gallons and packaged water,
which is relatively expensive. In this case, health
behavior towards illness treatment differs from
social status, economic situation, and societal
culture. Meanwhile, sick role behavior is still
relatively dependant on an individual’s role in
society.
Tidal communities have their own medical
system. This medical system includes faith healing
and efforts to improve general health. The health
behavior in this study is formed due to societal
culture and beliefs on susceptibility to illness,
malignant diseases, and general societal costs.
Geographical conditions affect the behavior of the
tidal community in preventing and healing of
disease, as well as in improving their health.
5 CONCLUSIONS
This paper discusses the limited access to clean
water in areas with abundant water resources.
Communities in this areas use different strategies to
fulfill their daily need of water. The obstacles they
face in accessing various water sources will
influence the health behaviour of the community as
a whole. The point is that individual and familial
health behaviors in tidal communities are related to
environmental, social, economic, and cultural
conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to anonymous reviewers
that spent their time providing constructive input to
improve this article. The authors also appreciate all
the informants who contributed to this paper. We’d
also like to extend our gratitude to the Ministry of
Research and Technology, Directorate of Higher
Education, Indonesia, and Sriwijaya University, that
funded this fundamental research. We hope this
research will be useful for others in the future.
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