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Spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in the availability of community health centres in the Jakarta region, Indonesia
- Source :
- Geospatial Health, Vol 16, Iss 2 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- PAGEPress Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- In the late 1960s, Indonesia established community health centres (CHCs) throughout the country to provide basic healthcare services for the poor. However, CHC expenditures and investments vary widely at the sub-provincial level, among administrative areas known as cities and regencies, raising concern that facilities and services do not correspond to population needs. This study aimed to examine spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in the availability of CHCs in the Jakarta region. We used spatial and statistical analysis methods at the village level to investigate these inequalities based on CHC data from the Ministry of Health and socioeconomic data from Indonesia Statistics. Results show that CHCs and the healthcare workers within them are unevenly distributed. In areas with high need, the availability of CHCs and healthcare workers were found to be low. There is a mismatch in healthcare services and delivery for low-income, unemployed populations at the village level that needs to be addressed. The findings discussed in this paper suggest that Jakarta Department of Health should coordinate with local public health districts to determine locations for new CHCs and assign healthcare workers to each CHC based on need as this would improve access to essential health services for the low-income population.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
spatial analysis
Inequality
Indonesia
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Geography, Planning and Development
Population
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Health care
medicine
Humans
Statistical analysis
education
Socioeconomics
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic inequalities
Jakarta
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Geography (General)
education.field_of_study
Community health centres
healthcare workers
business.industry
Health Policy
Public health
Community Health Centers
socioeconomic inequality
Geography
Socioeconomic Factors
Community health
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Public Health
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19707096 and 18271987
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geospatial Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ff3a9c908860bc93bada53daa54fab3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2021.982