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The Effects Of Social Health Insurance On Women’S Healthcare Use: Evidence From Indonesia

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  • SHANIKA SAMARAKOON

    (Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Malaysia)

  • RASYAD A. PARINDURI

    (Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Malaysia)

Abstract

To increase the use of healthcare services in Indonesia, the government of Indonesia introduced Askeskin, a subsidized social health insurance for the poor, in 2005. We examine the effects of this social health insurance on women’s healthcare use. Using propensity score matching, we find Askeskin induces women to use public healthcare facilities for birth delivery and antenatal checkup, discourages them from getting help from midwives for birth delivery, and makes them more likely to use contraceptives. The insurance seems to increase delivery care expenditure, however. We do not find evidence that it increases women’s preventive and curative healthcare use.

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  • Shanika Samarakoon & Rasyad A. Parinduri, 2024. "The Effects Of Social Health Insurance On Women’S Healthcare Use: Evidence From Indonesia," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 69(03), pages 1265-1288, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:69:y:2024:i:03:n:s0217590820500733
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590820500733
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    Keywords

    Social health insurance; maternal healthcare use; women’s healthcare use; Asia; Indonesia;
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    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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