Equity of health financing in Indonesia: A 5-year financing incidence analysis (2015-2019).

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2014, Indonesia launched a single payer national health insurance scheme with the aim of covering the entire population by 2024. The objective of this paper is to assess the equity with which contributions to the health financing system were distributed in Indonesia over 2015 - 2019.

Methods

This study is a secondary analysis of nationally representative data from the National Socioeconomic Survey of Indonesia (2015 - 2019). The relative progressivity of each health financing source and overall health financing was determined using a summary score, the Kakwani index.

Findings

Around a third of health financing was sourced from out-of-pocket (OOP) payments each year, with direct taxes, indirect taxes and social health insurance (SHI) each taking up 15 - 2

SUBMITTER: Cheng Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8873956 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature