Traditional health services utilization in rural Indonesia: does socioeconomic status matter?

Introduction: The presence of traditional health services (THS) is expected by governments to fill the lack of modern health facilities available in rural areas. Also, the proportion of poor people in rural areas has been increasing more rapidly than it has in urban areas. The present study analyzed the socioeconomic status and THS utilization in rural Indonesia.

The Effort to Rationalize Antibiotic Use in Indonesian Hospitals: Practice and Its Implication.

An effective strategy for combatting AMR in Indonesia is to make the use of antibiotics in hospitals more rational with the help of an Antimicrobial Resistance Control Program (AMR-CP). This study aims to analyze the implementation of the AMR-CP in hospitals by conducting in-depth interviews with health professionals from ten hospitals and health officers of ten provincial health offices in ten different provinces and observation towards its documents. The sample location was selected by purposive sampling.