The central objective of a recently published study on the cost of health service delivery in Indonesia is to provide a better understanding of the cost of delivering health services across the country.
The study is expected to inform policy in a number of ways including the development of geographic resource allocation, capitation formulae for primary care and the development of hospital payment systems. Understanding the determinants (drivers) of cost can help to understand how costs will change as a result of policies to increase utilisation of services as risk pooling is expanded.
