Problems of Health Services in the Border Areas and the Efforts to Overcome

Ratna Dwi Wulandari

2017

Abstract

Frontier areas have specific characteristics due to the impact of different environmental conditions, e.g. the distance away from the centre of government and geographical conditions that tend to be difficult. The easy movement of people from one region to another has an impact on the rapid transmission of disease. Therefore the health care system in border areas requires specific handling because it involves two or more districts. This research study was conducted to identify health service problems in the border areas in East Java, so then a recommendation can be made to improve the appropriate health service system. This research is a descriptive research study with a cross-sectional design. The location of the study was in four of the outermost regencies in the East Java Province. The results of the research indicate that some of the problems identified are the high utilisation of cross-border health services that has an impact on the incomplete health services provided to the community, and that there is no inter-region case reporting mechanism. Some efforts that can be undertaken to improve the health care systems in border areas include developing cooperation for better coordination in the case of inter-regional population mobility, standardised service procedures and reporting recording systems, and floating surveillance networks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wulandari R. (2017). Problems of Health Services in the Border Areas and the Efforts to Overcome.In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA, ISBN 978-989-758-335-3, pages 277-281. DOI: 10.5220/0007028802770281

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inahea17,
author={Ratna Dwi Wulandari},
title={Problems of Health Services in the Border Areas and the Efforts to Overcome},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,},
year={2017},
pages={277-281},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007028802770281},
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 - Problems of Health Services in the Border Areas and the Efforts to Overcome
SN - 978-989-758-335-3
AU - Wulandari R.
PY - 2017
SP - 277
EP - 281
DO - 10.5220/0007028802770281