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Routine health checkups are simple and easy to do. Health checks can include physical examinations, laboratory tests, and followed by consultations. The purpose of this service activity is to be able to provide counseling to residents regarding the prevention of non-communicable diseases (PTM) and conduct examinations such as blood pressure checks and cholesterol checks. The purpose of these tests is to detect previously unknown diseases or health problems. This way, you can improve your health early on, before the condition gets worse. There are many health problems that can be detected through regular health checks. These diseases are the main diseases that are commonly suffered by citizens, especially in Indonesia. Residents of KM 14 neighborhood in Palembang City mostly consist of working age residents, who have more opportunities to work and have less time to undergo health checks and when residents are on vacation, health services are also closed.  Most of the residents of KM 14 Palembang City do not know the importance of health checks and do not have the right time to visit health services. So the PKM team began to offer solutions by conducting physical examinations and education about systemic diseases such as high blood pressure, gout, and diabetes.  

Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the main health problems in every country because it can cause heart disease and deadly brain stroke. Hypertension is seen as a serious health problem because we often don't realize it comes with few if any real symptoms. This disease can continue to get worse without realizing it to a level that threatens the life of the sufferer. Hypertension or high blood pressure is an increase in systolic blood pressure of more than 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure of more than 90 mmHg on two measurements with an interval of five minutes in a state of sufficient rest/calm. This study used a pre-experimental design method with the type of one group pretest-posttest design. The target in this study were the elderly in Jurong Binje Village, Jangka Buya District, Pidie Jaya Regency. The questionnaire in this study was used to examine the effect of counseling about hypertension on increasing the knowledge of the elderly in Jurong Binje Village, Jangka Buya District, Pidie Jaya Regency. The number of samples taken was 15 elderly people. It is known that most of the respondents were female as many as 10 respondents with a percentage of 66.7%, while most of them were aged 55-60 years as many as 9 respondents with a percentage of 60%. The highest level of knowledge of the elderly before being given counseling was in the moderate category, 5 people (33.3%). The highest level of knowledge of the elderly after being given counseling was in the high category, 15 people (100%). The average knowledge level of the elderly before being given counseling was 1.67 and after being given counseling was 1.00. From these results it can be concluded that there were positive results from the counseling process carried out.  

The world is facing a triple burden caused by various disease problems. These problems include the presence of New Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases such as Covid 19, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) tend to increase every year and Infectious diseases that have not been resolved properly. This causes Indonesia to only focus on curative health efforts (Nina et al, 2018). Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke. cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are the main causes of death in the world (WHO, 2018). Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) or Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are diseases that cannot be transmitted from person to person, whose development progresses slowly over a long period of time (chronic). Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, tend to last a long time and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioral factors (WHO, 2018).

Routine health checks/screenings are preventive promotive efforts mandated to be carried out by regents/mayors in accordance with Permendagri no 18/2016 with the aim of encouraging people to recognize risk factors for non-communicable diseases (PTM) related to behavior and make immediate control efforts at the individual, family level and society; encouraging the discovery of physiological risk factors that have the potential to cause PTM, namely overweight and obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, sensory disturbances and mental disorders. The purpose of this activity is to find out earlier the status of reproductive health in young women at SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. Screening consists of measuring weight, measuring height, measuring BMI, measuring LILA and personal hygiene screening. Screening results showed that 1.9% of students had low TB (less than 148.9cm), 28.3% had a thin BMI status, 5% BMI Overweight and 18.5% had KEK (Chronic Energy Deficiency) with LILA<23 ,5cm. From this activity it can be concluded that the health problems of adolescents at Muhammadiyah 3 Metro Vocational School are quite varied so that further intervention is needed so as not to cause unwanted health impacts in the future.

Non-communicable diseases (PTM) are diseases that cannot be transmitted from person to person, whose development progresses slowly over a long period of time (chronic). In the early stages, PTM is often asymptomatic, many do not know and are aware that they have PTM, thus making public awareness for self-examination/early detection lacking. Posbindu PTM activities to increase community participation in prevention and early detection of PTM risk factors through training of Posbindu health cadres including general health assessments, nutritional assessments and provision of additional food made from local ingredients. Health cadres are the spearhead of Posyandu implementation. The existence of health cadres plays a major role in the implementation of Posyandu so that it is necessary to increase the knowledge and skills of health cadres to support the implementation of Posbindu PTM. The purpose of this community service is the transformation of knowledge and skills regarding Posbindu management for the detection of NCDs through health checks and examinations of nutritional status and the provision of additional meals. The community service method is Posbindu cadre training in the form of knowledge and skills transformation on Posbindu management for PTM detection and provision of additional meals. The target is the health cadres of Posbindu Salak, Songgorunggi Hamlet, RT.01 RW.06, Dagen Village, Jaten District, Karanganyar Regency, totaling 15 personnel, held on December 28, 2022. The results of the activity showed that there was an increase in the knowledge of the training participants by 100%, namely the pretest results where the lowest score was 40 and the highest score was 80 and the average pretest score was 58.85, while the posttest score was the lowest score 80 and the highest score was 100 and the average the average posttest value is 91.92 so that the lowest increase is 15 and the highest increase is 55 and the average increase is 33.

Early detection of non-communicable diseases (PTM) such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus and joints is needed as a preventive measure. The government through Government Regulation Number 2 of 2018, Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 100 of 2018, and Minister of Health Regulation Number 4 of 2019 has determined that efforts to control diabetes mellitus are one of the minimum services that must be carried out by regional governments. Activities carried out are health checks which include checking blood pressure, checking blood sugar, and uric acid. The activity was attended by the community in the Tiga Panah GBKP environment. Examination results showed that there were 38.5% of the population with normal blood pressure. 53.8% of the population with normal blood sugar levels and 38.5% of the population with normal uric acid levels. This health examination is the first step for early detection of non-communicable diseases (PTM) so that later it can be continued for routine checks at local health service facilities.