New Insights into the Provision of Health Services in Indonesia : A Health Workforce Study
Indonesia has made improving the access to health workers, especially in rural areas, and improving the quality of health provider's key priority areas of its next five-year development plan. Significant steps and policy changes were taken to...
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World Bank
2012
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Summary: | Indonesia has made improving the access
to health workers, especially in rural areas, and improving
the quality of health provider's key priority areas of
its next five-year development plan. Significant steps and
policy changes were taken to improve the distribution of the
health workforce, in particular the contracted doctors
program and later the contracted midwives program, but few
studies have been undertaken to measure the actual impact of
these policies and programs. This book is part of the inputs
prepared at the request of the government of
Indonesia's national development agency, Bappenas, to
inform the development of the next national development plan
2010-14. Other inputs include reports on health financing,
fiscal space for health, health public expenditure review,
and assessments of maternal health and pharmaceuticals.
Study findings highlight the importance not only of
improving the supply of health care, but also of improving
quality, so as to improve health outcomes. Over the period
studied, important gains in the determinants of health
outcomes have occurred in Indonesia. At the same time,
however, the study shows that Indonesia, despite the
significant gains, continues to suffer from serious
challenges in the number and distribution, and in particular
the quality, of its health workers. |
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