Global Health Challenges in Indonesia: Factors Contributing to the Development of Health Problems

This article discusses the challenges faced by Indonesia in terms of global health, including infectious diseases, healthcare access, and high costs. It also explores the contributing factors to these challenges and their impact on the nation's development.

Global Health Social Justice and
Sustainability

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Contributing factors in the development of the global health problems in Indonesia.................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
The global health is referring to problems that exceed national boundaries as well as
governments. The global health developments increasingly effect on the Indonesia health
services, upsetting patient’s resources, doctors and social elements of health (Laraswati, et. al.,
(2022)). The global health challenges are including non-communicable disease, infectious
disease, food supplies, environmental factor, inequality and healthcare in war zone. The
infectious disease is illness which are caused by the harmful pathogens that get into body from
outside. These diseases are including tuberculosis, dengue virus, malaria and diphtheria.
According to WHO Global TB report 2020, Indonesia is country with the second utmost TB
burden in the world. There are 5.7% people are affected by the tuberculosis disease (Bräuchler,
B. (2019)).
(Number of deaths from tuberculosis in Indonesia from 2008 to 2017(per 100000
population))
MAIN BODY
Contributing factors in the development of the global health problems in Indonesia
Unavailability of health services:
The lowly class of health services are property back progress on refining health countries
at all income level. There are lacking of nurses, technologies and other roles have predicted
shortfall as well (Sosnowski, Weis & Petrossian, (2020)). These gaps affected everyone, but
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specifically patients already in healthcare deserts such as rural areas. There are sufficient number
of healthcare workers’ equity in access to needed care cannot be achieved and the economy
potential of health remains undisclosed (Santika, et. al., (2020)). The healthcare workers are at
risk of contracting with tuberculosis infection at workplace. The healthcare services in Indonesia
are inadequate and the standard of resident health care can be poor as well as these are tend to be
overcrowded and waiting time will be long (Warren, & Steenbergen, (2021)).
Expensive healthcare cost:
The Indonesia's healthcare spending is low as compared to other countries such as China
and Thailand. High cost inflate the earnings of many providers and make the industry
unnecessarily large. The respective nation exposure from public healthcare workers and private
services that opt to join the system. The low income families are not get the effective healthcare
for the treatment off the tuberculosis (Withers et. al., (2019)). The high healthcare costs
disproportionally affect uninsured adults, black and Hispanic adult and those with lower income.
These are not affording the high cost healthcare system, so the government of the Indonesia is
introduce the low-cost healthcare technologies and develops the human right for better and
effective treatment for the global disease. There are 62.9% of the population deficiency entree to
hospitals and 60.8% of population absence admission to primary healthcare services (Tickamyer
& Kusujiarti, (2020)).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussed report, it has been determined that there are a number of
challenges are present which affect the development of the nation. There are several challenges
are present which are contributed to the health care challenges. There are including gaps in
health infrastructure, the unavailability of quality of health workers as well as expensive
healthcare cost. These aspects are associated with the healthcare problems.
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