The Effect of Health Service of Poor People on Human Development in Regional Development of Medan City

Abstract- Health service is conducted to obtain a better level of health of the society. A decent level of health would increase of productivity, quality of life, and human development index as well as reducing poverty. The objectives of the research are (1) to analyze the effects of health services for the poor people on the health status in Medan City and (2) to analyze the effect of health and human services on regional developments in Medan City. This is an explanatory research. Population is poor family living in Medan City having Askeskin or Jamkesnas card. A number of 876 samples were chosen proportionally from 21 sub- district of Medan City. The effect of health service of poor people on human and regional development was analyzed by linear regression test. The result showed that there was a significant effect of the level of health services on health of poor people. Also, there is a significant effect of the quality of health service on human development in the regional development perspective. Therefore, it can be concluded that the increase of quality of health services for poor people would accelerate the process of human and regional development. It is suggested that the government of Medan City to provide a sufficient budget for health services so that people, especially poor people have a good access for health services. Meanwhile, in a regional development perspective, the government should position human development as the priority of development. Index Terms- healthy service, human development, poverty. I