Hospital Accessibility in Indonesia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v21i3.2973Keywords:
hospital access, ecological analysis, equity, poverty, healthcare performance.Abstract
The government’s task is to ensure easy access for the public to the health facilities needed. The study aimed
at analyzing ecologically the factors related to the accessibility of hospitals in Indonesia. The ecological
analysis conducted using secondary data from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia report
in 2018. The study takes all provincesas samples. Apart from households easily accessible to the hospital,
five other variables analyzed as independent variables were total population, population density, poverty
depth index, poverty severity, and population percentage completing primary education. Data were analyzed
using a scatter plot. The study results found that the higher the total population in a province, the higher the
percentage of households easily accessible to the hospital in that province.Thehigher the population density
in an area, the higher the percentage of households access to the hospital in that area.On the other hand,
the higher the poverty depth index in a region, the lower the percentage of households easily accessible
to the hospital in that province. Moreover, the higher the poverty severity index in a region, the lower the
percentage of households easily accessible to the hospital in that region. Finally, the higher the percentage of
the population completing primary education in a province, the higher the percentage of households easily
accessible to the hospital in that province. It concluded that five independent variables were analyzed related
to the accessibility of hospitals in Indonesia.
