| dc.description.abstract | This research basically is an evaluation study on UHC both Indonesia and Thailand. The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Policy is an important health policy issue among ASEAN Countries, including Indonesia and Thailand. Thailand has been implemented UHC for almost twelve years, and on the other hand, Indonesia has just in the beginning step of UHC. Even though both of them started UHC at the different year, but both of countries can have lesson learn by evaluating their implementation either their preparation for UHC. The facts shown, UHC brings benefit for the people, but still there are UHC off-track in both countries, despite nominal comprehensive coverage for the poor, patients had difficulty accessing certain services, poor quality and unequal distribution of government health facilities.
The long term goal of this research is to have a sustainable research collaboration with Thammasat University to produce international publication base on research, reference book and to fill the MoU between UniversitasMuhammadiyah Yogyakarta and Thammasat University Thailand. The short term goal of this research is to response to the problems related to UHC both in Indonesia and Thailand. This research in particular will try to address the evaluation of two things, first, how do the distinctive model of UHC implementation both in Indonesia and Thailand. Second is how do the distinctive results of UHC impact both in Indonesia and Thailand.
The analytical approach of this study is derived from a mix methods between quantitative and qualitative research methods. In this mix methods, the quantitative approach will use more on descriptive quantitative parameter such as table of frequency and the average of dispersion by conducting survey. While in qualitative will use the interview guide and focus discussion group to explore the information that have not been covered by survey. The survey and FGD wil be conducted both in Indonesia and Thailand with the certain respondents and and key informen. Finally, this research will also performing the procedures of triangulation to mean convergence among researchers (agreement between field notes of one investigator and observations of another) and convergence among theories.
In order to achieve through the goal of this study, the policy model is utilized. It is considered the most effective way to help analyze, reformulate, implement, control, and provide feedback on the UHC in Indonesia and Thailand. To serve this goal, the scope of this research project has 5 phases of study:The 1st phase of the study will provide a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the UHC of Indonesia and Thailand. The second phase will explore the extent and policy related regarding gaps and problems of UHC by utilizing the result of first phase. The third phase will evaluate policy in order to fill these gaps by decreasing or eliminating obstacles to the UHC system of Indonesia and Thailand. The fourth phase will design draft of policies and strategy for improvement of UHC implementation regarding each urgent issue and over all in Indonesia and Thailand. The fifth phase will result improving of implementation model of UHC policy regarding as comparative analysis of policy in Indonesia and Thailand. | en_US |
