Comparing National Health Financing Strategies Amidst Increasing Mobility Within ASEAN: Lessons from the Philippines and Indonesia

Jaifred Christian F. Lopez, Ryan Rachmad Nugraha, Don Eliseo Lucero Prisno III

2017

Abstract

Health needs within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are expected to become more mobile as a result of regional integration, thus highlighting the need for a regional consensus on providing health services to migrants, the need to equip health systems, and the need to harmonize national health financing strategies. We propose that this harmonization can be facilitated by a contextual comparison of national health financing strategies, guided by the framework promoted by the World Health Organization. Using an analysis matrix that synthesized insights generated from literature, we compared the health financing strategies of the Philippines and Indonesia, two countries with important political and socioeconomic similarities. Results show that the strategies are predominantly inward-looking, which focus more on providing various levels of health coverage depending on socioeconomic status and employment, while lacking mechanisms and a program framework to cover migrants. Thus, while considering the diversity of government structures and health system capacities within the region, there is a need to develop a common framework for universal health coverage for migrants, which has to be included in national health financing strategies within ASEAN

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lopez J., Nugraha R. and Prisno III D. (2017). Comparing National Health Financing Strategies Amidst Increasing Mobility Within ASEAN: Lessons from the Philippines and Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA, ISBN 978-989-758-335-3, pages 222-227. DOI: 10.5220/0007027602220227

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inahea17,
author={Jaifred Christian F. Lopez and Ryan Rachmad Nugraha and Don Eliseo Lucero Prisno III},
title={Comparing National Health Financing Strategies Amidst Increasing Mobility Within ASEAN: Lessons from the Philippines and Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,},
year={2017},
pages={222-227},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007027602220227},
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 - Comparing National Health Financing Strategies Amidst Increasing Mobility Within ASEAN: Lessons from the Philippines and Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-335-3
AU - Lopez J.
AU - Nugraha R.
AU - Prisno III D.
PY - 2017
SP - 222
EP - 227
DO - 10.5220/0007027602220227