Researchers from Universitas Andalas Report Recent Findings in Clinical and Diagnostic Research (Comparative Study of Unit Cost-analysis among Urban and Rural Dental Primary Health Services in Padang City, Indonesia)

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2020 APR 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Daily -- Researchers detail new data in clinical and diagnostic research. According to news reporting originating from Padang, Indonesia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The reformation of The Indonesian Health System that became National Health Insurance (NHI) by using capitation method made a significant change in basic healthcare services. Capitation method is influenced by utilisation and unit cost calculation.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Universitas Andalas: “Puskesmas, that stand for Community-based health service, is a primary healthcare full financed by Indonesian government capitation and focus on free simple healthcare. Inequalities of puskesmas distribution spread all over Indonesia, including in urban and rural area and impacted the oral health outcome and dental service delivery. To calculate and to analyse the comparison of dental service-unit cost value after the reformation of Indonesian NHI at the urban and rural puskesmas in Padang City, Indonesia. Two of 22 total puskesmas were chosen by random sampling, one puskesmas was representative for urban and rural counterpart. The data was collected, extracted and analysed. Then two administrative officers where interviewed, at each puskesmas. The Activity Based Costing (ABC) method was used to calculate the unit cost of dental healthcare services. Unit cost of dental service in urban puskesmas was IDR 86,652, and rural was IDR 108,721. Rural puskesmas has high total cost and low activity driver. On the other hand, low total cost with high activity driver was found at urban puskesmas.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Rural puskesmas has higher unit cost value than urban puskesmas. Hence, it may help the Indonesian government to distribute equal capitation expenditure on dental service at each puskesmas in Indonesia.”

For more information on this research see: Comparative Study of Unit Cost-analysis among Urban and Rural Dental Primary Health Services in Padang City, Indonesia. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019,13(3):ZC26-ZC29. (Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research - http://www.jcdr.net/). The publisher for Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research is JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2019/37975.12714.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Febrian, Doctor, Department of Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Andalas, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. Additional authors for this research include Syukri Lukman, Hardisman, Suhairi, Desy Purnama Sari.