A Challenge of Universal Coverage to HIV/AIDS Outpatients

Lilis Masyfufah, Erwin Astha Triyono

2017

Abstract

HIV/AIDS cases in East Java in 2016 were the largest (16.431) where the most AIDS cases took place in Indonesia. The National Health Insurance in Indonesia commenced on January 1, 2014. BPJS utilization for HIV/AIDS patients nowadays is still limited to inpatient service, whereas its utilization by the outpatients still reaches around 30%. The objective of this research was to analyze the level of BPJS utilization and its relationship with the level of HIV/AIDS outpatients’ adherence. The method in this research was quantitative descriptive with a cross-sectional design. This research taken place in Dr. Soetomo General Hospital, the tertiary referral hospital in Indonesia, and the higest HIV/AIDS referral ini East Indonesia. The population of this research was HIV/AIDS patients at Dr. Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya’s Outpatients. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The results of this research showed that there were 31.7% patients who used BPJS to receive outpatient service at Dr. Soetomo General Hospital and that there was a relationship between health costs affordability and the level of patients’ adherence. The respondents claimed that BPJS utilization was considered too demanding because there were tiers to benefit from it and which needed to be got through every month. It was expected that a particular policy on easy accessibility will be applied to get HIV/AIDS services from the hospita

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Masyfufah L. and Triyono E. (2017). A Challenge of Universal Coverage to HIV/AIDS Outpatients.In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA, ISBN 978-989-758-335-3, pages 238-241. DOI: 10.5220/0007027902380241

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inahea17,
author={Lilis Masyfufah and Erwin Astha Triyono},
title={A Challenge of Universal Coverage to HIV/AIDS Outpatients},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,},
year={2017},
pages={238-241},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007027902380241},
isbn={978-989-758-335-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,
TI - A Challenge of Universal Coverage to HIV/AIDS Outpatients
SN - 978-989-758-335-3
AU - Masyfufah L.
AU - Triyono E.
PY - 2017
SP - 238
EP - 241
DO - 10.5220/0007027902380241