Healthy Lifestyle Coaching

 

The Challenge

Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago consisting of 17,000 islands, is home to the fourth largest population in the world. This vibrant nation has experienced remarkable economic growth and transformation over the past two decades, but it also faces significant challenges. Among these, the foremost health concern is the relentless rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), often referred to as chronic diseases. These escalating NCDs pose a critical issue for Indonesia, impacting lives, healthcare systems, and societal resilience in several ways:

  • Human Lives at Stake: NCDs account for a staggering 7 out of 10 premature deaths in Indonesia, encompassing the top four culprits, namely stroke, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, and cirrhosis of the liver (Lancet 2019 data organized by healthdata.org).

  • Strain on Healthcare: The high costs associated with treating NCDs put in question the sustainability of Indonesia's universal healthcare system (lowyinstitute.org 2021).

  • Perpetuating Poverty and Straining Health Systems: High rates of chronic diseases perpetuate poverty, strain the already fragile health infrastructure, and render the nation less resilient when faced with emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks (CDC, 2021).

Despite increasing awareness, the prevalence of chronic diseases in Indonesia continues to worsen. The country remains resource-constrained in addressing this critical health challenge (Plos One, 2017). A paradigm shift towards health promotion is urgently needed (Lancet, 2018).


A Solution

Healthy Lifestyle Coaching Indonesia aims to address this pressing issue by offering a solution at the core of the problem - daily lifestyles riddled with unhealthy habits. The initiative provides direct health coaching services to the community and offers training and certification programs for individuals aspiring to become health coaches. Their vision is simple - to foster a healthier Indonesia, one client and one health coach at a time.

Beyond its impact on the nation's health, this initiative has the potential to create a positive ripple effect within Indonesia's labor force. The country grapples with high unemployment rates among college graduates, notably among nurses (stratsea, 2021). Furthermore, a significant challenge within Indonesia's labor market is the mismatch between skills and labor market demand. By imparting training and skills, Healthy Lifestyle Coaching Indonesia not only generates employment opportunities in the field of health coaching but also enhances the marketability of nursing graduates for conventional roles within the healthcare system.

Well-trained health coaches are capable of guiding clients from unhealthy lifestyles to healthy ones. They are pioneering this health coaching approach as it does not yet exist in Indonesia.


Business Activities Geared Towards Good Health And Well-Being, Quality Education, and Decent Work.

Target: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDG 3) 3.1 Promote high quality health services through teaching medical techniques and/or providing medical training seminars for other medical professionals. (Created for PRINT)

Target: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (SDG 4). 4.1 Work towards ensuring that individuals have access to quality education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. (Created for PRINT)

Target: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8). 8.3 Promote and support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.

Measured by:

  • Number of clients receiving health care coaching from trained coaches?

  • Describe long term goals for each coach to attain? (ex: numbers of clients, training new coaches, building their own business, etc..)

  • Describe how health coaching has impacted clients' well being?

  • Describe creative functional ways of implementing healthy lifestyle in a city setting?

  • Number of health coaches trained each quarter receiving certifications?

  • Number of health coaches with success ratios after training? (retained coaches now coaching clients, employment etc)

  • How many seminars were held each quarter? (Micro seminars: sleep, nutrition, stress)

  • Number of attendees at training centers/seminars each quarter?

  • Number of part time employees/health coaches?

  • Number of new coaches being trained each quarter?

Healthy Lifestyle Coaching Indonesia provides direct health coaching services to the community and offers training and certification programs for individuals aspiring to become health coaches. Their vision is simple - to foster a healthier Indonesia, one client and one health coach at a time.



What Does Your Donation Go Towards?

  • Monthly expenses (mostly payroll) to train new health coaches.

  • Marketing to build a client base to make the business sustainable.

  • Equipment (laptops, tablets, projector) for training.

  • Software subscription that enables collaboration among staff and coaches.

 
 
Indonesia, SDG3 - Good Health/Well-Being, SDG4 - Quality Education, SDG8 - Decent Work/Economic DevelopmentProfessionals InternationalHealth Coaching, Coaching