FK Holds PLA About Catastrophic Health Spending

    Kaliurang (UII News-25/06) – Catastrophic Health Expenditure, the economic sense is that spending to finance health that exceeds the household's financial capacity will exacerbate the economic stability of the household.

    This was conveyed by DR.dr. Bondan Agus Suryanto, SE, MA, AAK in the Creating an Academic Environment (PLA) event for Lecturers and Tutors at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Islam Indonesia on Thursday, 25 June 2015 to coincide with 07 Ramadhan 1436 H in the auditorium Lt. 1 Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University of Indonesia.
    Doctor Bondan further said that health expenditure is called catastrophic if it exceeds 10% of total household expenditure (Pradhan and Prescott, 2002; Ranson, 2002; Wagstaff and Van Doorslaer, 2003). Meanwhile, WHO chose the criteria for health spending to be called catastrophic if it was greater than or equal to 40% of non-subsistance household expenditure, not for basic needs expenditure (WHO, 2005).
    Meanwhile, the research used by Doctor Bondan and his dissertation used the catastrophic criteria used by Rama Pal (2010), namely for households that are below poverty, the threshold for catastrophic spending is zero.
    For households that are above the poverty line, the value of the threshold for catastrophic financing is the difference between total household expenditure minus total household minimum basic needs divided by total household expenditure.
    "If the health financing is equal to or greater than this threshold value, then the household is said to be in a catastrophic state," said Doctor Bondan in his hand out. Wibowo/Tri