Demand, Access, and Health Equity

This theme focuses on healthcare utilization, access to services, equity, patient experience, vulnerable populations, and the distributional consequences of health financing policies. The publications explore how insurance, financing, gender, age, geography, and socioeconomic conditions influence access to healthcare and health outcomes.

Universal health coverage in Indonesia: concept, progress, and challenges

Indonesian Health Systems Group, including Budi Hidayat and Atik Nurwahyuni.
The Lancet, 2019.
Topic tags: universal health coverage, JKN, health system reform, equity.

The effects of mandatory health insurance on equity in access to outpatient care in Indonesia

Budi Hidayat; Hasbullah Thabrany; Hengjin Dong; Rainer Sauerborn.
Health Policy and Planning, 2004.
Topic tags: equity, outpatient care, mandatory health insurance, access.

Out-of-Pocket expenditure and patient experience of care under Indonesia’s national health insurance

Viktoria Couturier; Swati Srivastava; Budi Hidayat; Manuela De Allegri.
International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2022.
Topic tags: patient experience, financial protection, JKN, access to care.

The effect of health insurance on institutional delivery in Indonesia

Mazda Novi Mukhlisa; Pujiyanto.
Kesmas, 2018.
Topic tags: health insurance, institutional delivery, maternal health, access.

Gender role and child health care utilization in Nepal

Subhash Pokhrel; Rachel C. Snow; Hengjin Dong; Budi Hidayat; Steffen Flessa; Rainer Sauerborn.
Health Policy, 2005.
Topic tags: gender, child health, utilization, equity.

Modelling the effectiveness of financing policies to address underutilization of children’s health services in Nepal

Subhash Pokhrel; Budi Hidayat; Steffen Flessa; Rainer Sauerborn.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005.
Topic tags: child health, underutilization, financing policy, access.

Unseen burden: Prevalence and determinants of possible sarcopenia in Indonesian older adults – a secondary data analysis

Via Dolorosa Halilintar; Pujiyanto.
Belitung Nursing Journal, 2026.
Topic tags: older adults, sarcopenia, secondary data analysis, population health.

Determinants of household food security in rural areas in Indonesia (Susenas data analysis, 2017)

Dilla Syamola; Atik Nurwahyuni.
Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia, 2019.
Topic tags: food security, rural areas, SUSENAS, social determinants.