POOR HOUSEHOLDS EXPENDITURE FOR PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE HEALTH NEEDS

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze: 1) patterns and allocation of household expenditure in poor urban and rural areas for preventive and curative health needs in Jambi Province; 2) socio-economic factors that affect their expenditure. Data is gath-ered thorough poor households at the locus of chosen village. To analyze the patterns and allocation of household expenditures, descriptive statistical measures as well as single and cross frequency tables is used. Furthermore, to analyze the factors influenc-ing, multiple regression model is used. The results found that: 1) the average health expenditure per capita per year of was IDR 67,391. It is 1.37 percent of the total annu-al expenditure per capita, or only 3.56 percent of the total per capita annual expendi-ture for non-food needs. Furthermore, detailed health expenditures for curative and preventive, it was found that 73.36 percent of health expenditures for poor households were for curative needs and only 26.64 percent were allocated for preventive health needs; 2) socioeconomic factors that significantly influence health expenditure are: family head age, head of the family education, field and business status, per capita expenditure, and structure of household members according to age, education and main activities. Therefore to improve health poor household service requires a massive campaign to encourage them to go to service center. This service is granted by local governments, though it still have difficulties to be implemented on health insurance scheme in Indonesia (BPJS).