Researchers at Universitas Jember Release New Study Findings on Life Sciences (Factors Associated with National Health Insurance Coverage in Indonesia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]): Life Sciences

2022 OCT 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in life sciences. According to news reporting from the Universitas Jember by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The National Health Insurance (NHI) program is the Indonesian government’s national health program. However, health insurance coverage has not been maximized.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Universitas Jember: “This study aims to analyze the factors associated with health insurance coverage in Indonesia. Retrospective cross-sectional data were obtained from the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey 2017. A total of 39,580 respondents were selected using two-stage stratified cluster sampling. The data come from the DHS Questionnaire Phase 7. In this study, we explored age, education level, wealth quintiles, residence, the number of children who are alive, marital status, current employment status, earnings, and health insurance status in relation to health insurance coverage. Then, we analyzed the data using chi-squared and binary logistic analyses. The prevalence of health insurance coverage in the Indonesian population is 62.3%. Respondent aged 15-24 years [AOR=0.88; 95% CI=0.77-1.00], secondary education level [AOR=0.44; 95% CI=0.41-0.47], poorer wealth index [AOR=0.76; 95% CI=0.71-0.82], live in rural area [AOR=0.78; 95% CI=0.75-0.82], divorced [AOR=0.72; 95% CI=0.63-0.83] were less likelihood to have health insurance. Conversely, the respondent who received earnings [AOR=1.25; 95% CI=1.18-1.32] was more likely to have health insurance.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This finding pointed to education level, economic status, and demographic area such as respondents who lived in rural areas should more pay attention to NHI. Intervention through the provision of appropriate information about NHI should be promoted.”

For more information on this research see: Factors Associated with National Health Insurance Coverage in Indonesia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 2022,10. (F1000Research - http://f1000research.com). The publisher for F1000Research is F1000 Research Ltd.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.53672.2.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yulia Kurniawati, Department of Basic Science and Fundamental Nursing Care, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Jember, Jember, Indonesia. Additional authors for this research include Rifky Octavia Pradipta, Nursalam Nursalam, Tintin Sukartini, Hidayat Arifin, Joel Rey Ugsang Acob.

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