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financing is to maintain and improve human welfare.
At the extreme, without the necessary funds, no
health workers would be employed and no health
promotion or prevention would take place. However,
financing is much more than simply generating
funds. To understand the nature of the indicators that
can be used to monitor and evaluate health system
financing requires explicit assessment of what it is
expected to achieve. Instead, it suggests a broad
approach to ensuring that whatever is issued for
health results in the greatest returns, in terms of
policy progress, so as to improve treatment
performance.
The health financing policy here is a guide for
decision-makers in which service providers can
respond appropriately to signals generated by the
financing system. While health services justice is
something whereby health services and resources
should be distributed according to their needs and
not because of the community's ability to pay for
health services, it has been argued that recent
healthcare reforms regarding financing systems and
health management patterns are still a problem.
Socioeconomic imbalances in access to healthcare
continue to expand throughout the region, especially
for remote areas. There is a significant gap between
treatments that touch the poor and remote and those
for people in urban areas and there needs to be the
existence of financial protection from the cost of
disease provided by the community through a
mechanism of private insurance that cannot be
reached by remote communities in particular. This
means that the capacity of the paying poor must be
no higher than the rich because it is related to
solidarity aimed at justice. These factors not only
affect the proportion of the poor, but also increase
the cost of healthcare and hamper productivity and
economic growth in the region.
Health policy here is needed because, with the
existence of a strong health policy, the health service
gap between rural and urban will not have a too
significant difference. In addition, financing policy
must grapple with questions of how to raise funds
equitably, which usually implies a degree of
progressiveness (whereby the rich contribute a
higher proportion of their income than the poor).
Based on several studies it’s found that each
country needs to develop a clear and pro-poor health
financing policy and a comprehensive health
financing strategic plan with a clear road map. The
strategic plan should contain policy interventions
aimed at strengthening the health financing function.
The key policy challenge is to ensure that health
financing instruments are aligned with one another
with the goals to be achieved.
Governments have an important role in health
policy decisions, so the Government should be able
to realize policies that look at the actual situation to
avoid differences and be fair in providing health
services in both urban and remote areas. As we
know, local people actually need health services that
are more adequate and not complicated in their
financing system and this may be the main factor
people do not choose the existing health services.
Moreover, with a World Bank study finding
substantial inequalities in the use of healthcare
proving to play a role in health policy, it remains
inaccessible to reach all urban populations from
urban to remote villages. Citizens now need and
apply more health services.
This suggests that policymakers should be able to
respond systematically and comprehensively,
including some changes in health financing systems
and strategies to reform health service delivery and
to strengthen coordination between health and social
care so that there will be no significant returning
gaps. Therefore, the impact of Indonesia's health
financing system on the use of services should be
addressed with financial objectives. The contribution
of health financing policies should be more about
how financing is used for health systems. Therefore,
there must be justice in the use or utilization of
health services as an objective call for justice in
distribution.
5 CONCLUSIONS
Today's society tends to need and demand more
health services, while the current funding and health
costs in Indonesia are still far behind compared with
neighbouring countries. The financing factor or
health funding plays an important role in shaping
decisions and even policy interventions, so that
health services can be reached by people in remote
areas. This report uses the literature review method
so as to get a clear picture of the health financing
management pattern that influences policy making
which can represent Indonesia in improving the
health of its people. Each country needs to develop
clear and pro-poor health financing policies and
comprehensive health financing strategic plans as
well as Indonesia.
Government has an important role in health
policy decision-making so that it should be able to
objectively make policies that look at the actual
situation and also consider the financing system
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