The Effect of Local Government’s Elderly Social Assistance on Health Spending of Poor Elderly in Indonesia

  • Luthfi N
  • Hanri M
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This research examines the effect of the local government's elderly social assistance program on out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending for the poor elderly group in Indonesia. The data used is March 2020 Susenas data using counterfactual analysis. Because the requirement to be able to carry out a counterfactual analysis is that the subjects of the study must have the same/balanced characteristics, the data used is limited to the elderly in the bottom 40 percent of the economic group. Moreover, the randomization technique is also carried out using the Propensity Score Matching-Nearest-Neighbors (PSM-NN) method, namely constructing data with similar characteristics into two groups: the group that received treatment and the group that did not receive treatment. The results of this study indicate that the poor elderly group who receive elderly social assistance from the local government has a higher OOP health spending of 28.3 percent compared to the poor elderly group who do not receive assistance. The high spending on OOP was mainly due to increased spending on curative.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh program bantuan sosial lansia pemda terhadap belanja kesehatan out-of-pocket (OOP) kelompok lansia miskin di Indonesia. Data yang digunakan adalah data Susenas bulan Maret tahun 2020 dengan menggunakan analisis counterfactual. Karena syarat untuk dapat melakukan analisis counterfactual adalah subjek dari penelitian harus memiliki karakteristik yang sama/seimbang, maka data yang digunakan dibatasi pada lansia kelompok ekonomi 40 persen terbawah. Selain itu, dilakukan teknik randomisasi metode Propensity Score Matching-Nearest-Neighbors (PSM-NN) yaitu mengkonstruksi data yang memiliki karakteristik serupa menjadi dua grup yaitu grup yang mendapatkan perlakuan (treatment) dan grup yang tidak mendapatkan perlakuan (grup kontrol). Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kelompok lansia miskin yang mendapatkan bantuan sosial lansia pemda memiliki belanja kesehatan OOP lebih tinggi sebesar 28,3 persen dibanding kelompok lansia miskin yang tidak mendapatkan bantuan. Tingginya belanja OOP ini terutama disebabkan oleh peningkatan belanja untuk pengobatan/kuratif.

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Luthfi, N. A. L., & Hanri, M. (2023). The Effect of Local Government’s Elderly Social Assistance on Health Spending of Poor Elderly in Indonesia. Jurnal Perencanaan Pembangunan: The Indonesian Journal of Development Planning, 7(2), 299–312. https://doi.org/10.36574/jpp.v7i2.403

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