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BACKGROUND: The government is obliged to guarantee equal access to antenatal care (ANC) between urban and rural areas. This study aimed to analyze urban-rural disparities in ≥4 ANC visits during pregnancy in the Philippines and Indonesia. METHODS: The study processed data from the 2017 PDHS and the 2017 IDHS. The analysis unit was women aged 15–49 years old who had given birth in the last 5 years. The weighted sample size was 7992 respondents in the Philippines and 14,568 respondents in Indonesia. Apart from ANC as the dependent variable, other variables analyzed were residence, age, husband/partner, education, parity, and wealth. Determination of urban-rural disparities using binary logistic regression. RESULTS: The results show that women in the urban Philippines are 0.932 times more likely than women in the rural Philippines to make ≥4 ANC visits. On the other side, women in urban Indonesia are more likely 1.255 times than women in rural Indonesia to make ≥4 ANC visits. Apart from the type of residence place (urban-rural), five other tested multivariate variables also proved significant contributions to ANC's use in both countries, i.e., age, have a husband/partner, education, parity, and wealth status. CONCLUSIONS: The study concluded that disparities exist between urban and rural areas utilizing ANC in the Philippines and Indonesia. Pregnant women in the rural Philippines have a better chance of making ≥4 ANC visits. Meanwhile, pregnant women in urban Indonesia have a better chance of making ≥4 ANC visits.

The elderly are one of the most vulnerable groups with very high dependency rates. This condition has the potential to cause other problems for the caregiver or his family. The elderly also has the potential to suffer from catastrophic diseases that have costly consequences. This research is a further analysis of Riskesdas 2013 data, that presented in descriptive quantitative. The results showed that elderly people living in urban as well as rural areas have a tendency of moderate access barrier to Puskesmas. There are still 15% of very poor elderly people who have major access barrier to Puskesmas. This study concludes that although elderly access to Puskesmas is quite good, but the access of very poor elderly is still need more attention. The government needs to provide basic health care facilities in more rural areas. The government also needs to realize a National Health Insurance with tax-based funding, to ensure universal coverage regardless of the ability to pay the community. Abstrak Lansia adalah salah satu kelompok rentan yang memiliki angka ketergantungan sangat tinggi. Kondisi ini berpotensi menimbulkan masalah lain bagi yang merawat atau keluarganya. Lansia juga berpotensi menderita penyakit katastropik yang menimbulkan konsekuensi biaya yang mahal. Penelitian ini merupakan analisis lanjut data Riskesdas 2013, yang disajikan secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lansia yang tinggal di perkotaan maupun perdesaan mempunyai kecenderungan hambatan akses sedang untuk ke Puskesmas. Masih ada 15% lansia sangat miskin yang memiliki hambatan besar ke Puskesmas. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa meski akses lansia ke Puskesmas sudah cukup baik, tetapi akses lansia yang sangat miskin masih perlu mendapat perhatian lebih. Pemerintah perlu menyediakan fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan dasar di wilayah perdesaan yang lebih banyak. Pemerintah juga perlu mewujudkan sebuah Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional dengan pendanaan berbasis pajak, untuk memastikan cakupan secara universal dengan tanpa menghiraukan kemampuan membayar masyarakat.

BACKGROUND: Even though the Indonesian government have set regulations for maintaining exclusive breastfeeding practices, the coverage remains low. The study aims to analyze the effects of mother's education level on the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia. METHODS: This study used data from the 2017 Nutrition Status Monitoring Survey. It covered data of 53,528 children under 5 years old (7–59 months) as the samples. Variables included exclusive breastfeeding status, mother's education level, mother's age, marital status, employment status, gender, residence, under five's age and gender. A binary logistics regression was performed in the final test. RESULTS: Mothers who graduated from elementary school were 1.167 times more likely to perform exclusive breastfeeding compared to mothers who never attended schools. Additionally, those who graduated from junior high school had 1.203 times possibilities to give exclusive breastfeeding compared to mothers without educational records. While, mothers who graduated from high school were 1.177 times more likely to perform exclusive breastfeeding compared to those without educational records. Mothers who graduated from tertiary education had 1.203 times more possibilities to perform exclusive breastfeeding compared to mothers who were never enrolled to schools. Other variables also became affecting predictors on exclusive breastfeeding, such as mother's age, mother's employment status, child's age, and residence. CONCLUSIONS: The mother's education level positively affects exclusive breastfeeding practice in Indonesia.

BACKGROUND: The government must ensure equality in health services access, minimizing existing disparities between urban and rural areas. The referral system in Indonesia is conceptually sound. However, there are still problems of uneven service access, and there is an accumulation of patients in certain hospitals. The study aims to analyze the urban–rural disparities in hospital utilization in Indonesia. METHODS: The study used secondary data from the 2018 Indonesian Basic Health Survey. This cross-sectional study gathered 629,370 respondents through stratification and multistage random sampling. In addition to the kind of home and hospital utilization, the study looked at age, gender, marital status, education, occupation, wealth, and health insurance as control factors. The research employed multinomial logistic regression to evaluate the data in the final step. RESULTS: According to the findings, someone who lives in an urban region has 1.493 times higher odds of using outpatient hospital services than someone in a rural area (AOR 1.493; 95% CI 1.489–1.498). Meanwhile, someone who lives in an urban region has 1.075 times higher odds of using an inpatient facility hospital than someone who lives in a rural one (AOR 1.075; 95% CI 1.073–1.077). Furthermore, someone living in an urban region has 1.208 times higher odds than someone who lives in a rural area using outpatient and inpatient hospital services simultaneously (AOR 1.208; 95% CI 1.204–1.212). CONCLUSION: The study concluded there were urban–rural disparities in hospital utilization in Indonesia.

Background: The percentage of complete immunization in urban areas is higher than rural areas. The purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between ownership of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) books with Complete Basic Immunization (CBI) coverage in slums and poor areas. Design and Methods: A rapid survey was conducted in selected slums and poor groups based on medical records from Public Health Center. Informants were mothers with a sample of 325 infants aged 12 to 23 months. Results: The lowest coverage of CBI for slum and poor residents is Pasuruan, which is 55.4%. The results of statistical analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between ownership of MCH books and the complete coverage of basic immunization in Malang (P=0.000; PR=3.682); Pasuruan (P=0.002; PR=1.854); Sidoarjo (P=0.000; PR=4.042); Surabaya (P=0.000; PR=2.425). Conclusions: It is recommended that the government should improve access to complete immunization programs in slums and poor population.