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The Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat (lit. ' Community Health Center ' ), abbreviated as Puskesmas , are government-mandated community health clinics located across Indonesia . They are overseen by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and provide healthcare for the population on sub-district level.
Directorate of Health Promotion and People Empowerment (Indonesian: Direktorat Promosi Kesehatan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat) Directorate of Nutrition and Mother and Child Health (Indonesian: Direktorat Gizi dan Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak) Directorate of Productive and Elderly Health (Indonesian: Direktorat Kesehatan Usia Produktif dan Lanjut Usia)
In 2014, Indonesia introduced its universal healthcare program, the Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), which is provided by BPJS Kesehatan (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial Kesehatan, Health Social Security Agency). [3] It is currently covering over 200 million people. Around 20 million people in Indonesia is covered by private health ...
Healthcare in Laos is provided by both the private and public sector. It is limited in comparison with other countries. [1] Western medical care is available in some locations, but remote areas and ethnic groups are underserved.
Most developed countries have partially or fully publicly funded health systems. Most western industrial countries have a system of social insurance based on the principle of social solidarity that covers eligible people from bearing the direct burden of most health care expenditure, funded by taxation during their working life.
As part of the JKN, on 1 January 2014, PT Askes (Persero) was changed from a state-owned company into BPJS Kesehatan, a public agency, which becomes the provider of JKN. [3] [4] It is expected that the entire population will be covered in 2019. [5] [6] [7] In 2016, the BPJS program had a deficit of more than six trillion IDR.
In the plan, Balitbangkes will be transformed into Agency for Health Policies Development (Badan Kebijakan Pembangunan Kesehatan, BKPK), a regulatory agency intended to provide only policies and standards making for state health activity, no longer doing research as the research part will be relinquished to BRIN.
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.