THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE ON WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE USE: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA

Shanika Samarakoon and Rasyad Parinduri
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Shanika Samarakoon: Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Malaysia

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2024, vol. 69, issue 03, 1265-1288

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.

Keywords: Social health insurance; maternal healthcare use; women’s healthcare use; Asia; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I11 I13 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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