Research on Health Insurance Discussed by a Researcher at National Research and Innovation Agency (Social Demographic Dimensions of Contraceptive Use in the Land of Papua: A Cross-Sectional Approach): Health Insurance

2024 APR 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on health insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of the National Research and Innovation Agency by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The use of contraception is one of the efforts to prevent unwanted or mistimed pregnancies.”

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The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from National Research and Innovation Agency: “Therefore, it has become a family planning program for motivating families to have ideal plans for pregnancies in time and with a desired number. However, although nationally, 58.7% of married women aged 15-49 years old used contraception in 2019, the percentage of contraceptive users remained the lowest in Papua, with only 13.7% of married women of the same age group using contraceptives in addition to 20% of the women having the unmet need for contraception. This study aims to analyze the determinants of the use of contraception in women of childbearing age in Papua Province. This study employed data from the 2020 National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) with a cross-sectional approach. Respondents were 666,866 married women aged 10-54 years. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were performed using SPSS with a 95% confidence interval (p < 0.05) to express statistical significance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Residence, educational status, pregnancy, employment, age at first marriage, number of children, cell phone ownership, and health insurance were significantly correlated with contraceptive use (p < 0.001). Residence in an urban area, junior high school education, pregnancy, marriage at less than 20 years of age, having more than two children alive, and ownership of a cell phone and health insurance were associated with an increased chance of using contraceptive methods among married women of reproductive age in Papua. The chance to use contraception was the highest for married pregnant women of reproductive age, and the women, in this case, were 35 times more likely to use contraceptives compared to unpregnant ones.”

For more information on this research see: Social Demographic Dimensions of Contraceptive Use in the Land of Papua: A Cross-Sectional Approach. Jurnal Promosi Kesehatan Indonesia, 2024,19(2). The publisher for Jurnal Promosi Kesehatan Indonesia is Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP).

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.14710/jpki.19.2.111-119.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Darojad Nurjono Agung Nugroho, Directorate of Measurement and Indicators for Research, Technology and Innovation, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia. Additional authors for this research include Urip Tri Wijayanti, Evalina Franciska Hutasoit, Sri Sugiharti.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Darojad Nurjono Agung Nugroho (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0819-2356), Urip Tri Wijayanti (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7761-927X), Evalina Franciska Hutasoit (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5114-6024), Sri Sugiharti (http://orcid.org/0009-0009-2120-0881).

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