The Right to Health in Evidence-based Policymaking
The Case of Indonesia, 2009-2017
Abstract
The right to health is included in United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) number 3, “Good health and well-being”. This goal aims to ensure healthy life and to promote well-being for all, at all ages. The SDGs, which build on the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs), provide a significant expansion to the development agenda. Inclusive development is part and parcel of the SDGs. Evidence-based policymaking studies provide explanations of normative and legitimate expectations for policymakers, namely, to use scientific evidence and specific indicators in their policymaking process. The right to health, as constructed, in evidence-based policymaking discourse is in contention. This paper addresses the various types of meaning Indonesian policymakers attach to the right to health through their discourses in norms of health policy. This study provides an analysis of discourses, regulatory analysis, and historical narratives (based on analysis of health regulations and newspaper articles) pertaining to evidence-informed policy in the health sector in Indonesia from 2009-2017. Our findings elucidate how the right to health manifests in the processes of evidence-based policymaking. We do so by way of a two-pronged analysis, i) discourse analysis at the macro level in Indonesia about the right to health as a norm and ii) health policymaking at the micro level, in the Indonesian district of Gunungkidul,within the region of Yogyakarta.
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Hartono, Mimin Dwi. 2017. "Vaksinasi dan Hak Anak atas Kesehatan (Vaccination and Children’s Right to Health)." Kompas, 12th of August 2017.
Head, Brian W. 2008. "Three Lenses of Evidence-Based Policy." Australian Journal of Public Administration 67 (1):1-11.
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Jones, Harry. 2012. Promoting evidence-based decision-making in development agencies. London: Overseas Development Institute.
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Keller, Reiner. 2005. "Analysing Discourse. An Approach from the Sociology of Knowledge." Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social research 6 (3).
Kelsen, Hans. 1966. "On the Pure Theory of Law." Israel Law Review 1 (1):1-8.
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Liverani, Marco, Benjamin Hawkins, and Justin O Parkhurst. 2013. "Political and Institutional Influences on the Use of Evidence in Public Health Policy. A Systematic Review." PLoS 8 (10). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077404.
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Menski, Werner F. 2017. "Human Rights in Southeast Asia Are We Moving Backward? ." The Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights 1 (2):109-127. doi: https://doi.org/10.19184/jseahr.v1i2.5293.
Otto, J.M, W.S.R Stoter, and J. Arnscheidt. 2008. "Using legislative theory to improve law and development projects." In Lawmaking for Development : Explorations into the Theory and Practice of International Legislative Projects, edited by Julia Arnscheidt, Benjamin van Rooij and Jan Michiel Otto. Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, THE: Leiden University Press.
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Reed, BA, Habicht JP, and Niameogo C. 1996. "The effects of maternal education on child nutritional status depend on socio-environmental conditions." International Journal of Epidemiology 25 (3):585-592.
Risse, Thomas, and Kathryn Sikkink. 2009. "The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic practices: introduction " In The Power of Human Rights, International Norms and Domestic Change, edited by Thomas Risse, Stephen C Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, 1-38. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Slaughter, Anne-Marie. 1994. "A Typology of Transjudicial Communication." University of Richmond Law Review 29 (1).
Sparke, Matthew. 2009. "Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health." In Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy, edited by Adrian Kay and Owain David Williams, 131-159. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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The-Jakarta-Post. 2017b. "Govt to accelerate programs to overcome stunting among Indonesians." The Jakarta Post, 9th of November 2017. Accessed 11th of January 2018.
Thomas, Duncan, John Strauss, and Maria Helena Henriques. 1987. Child Survival Nutritional Status and Household Characteristics: Evidence from Brazil. In Center Discussion Paper Yale, New Haven: Yale University: Economic Growth Center.
Twining, William. 2000. Globalisation & Legal Theory. London: Butterworths.
White, Louise G. 1994. "Policy Analysis as Discourse." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 13 (3):506-525.
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2020-06-27
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PURWANINGRUM, Farah; MCDONALD, Fiona; SHORT, Stephanie Doris.
The Right to Health in Evidence-based Policymaking.
Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 168-199, june 2020.
ISSN 2599-2147.
Available at: <https://jurnal.unej.ac.id/index.php/JSEAHR/article/view/14088>. Date accessed: 14 nov. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.19184/jseahr.v4i1.14088.
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