Persepsi Stakeholders tentang Kinerja Fungsi Sistem Penelitian Kesehatan Nasional

Abstract

National health research system (NHRS) performance assessment will be very important to strengthen the capability of NHRS in order to improve the advancement of knowledge and health equity. The objective of this study is to measure the three functions performance of stewardship, creating and sustaining resources and producing and utilizing of health research based on the perceptions of NHRS stakeholders (researchers, policy makers, and users). This study used secondary data WHO pilot study which was carried out in Jakarta and Makassar in 2003-2004. The study design used is cross sectional with quantitative and qualitative data analysis for 278 respondents of NHRS individual survey. The respondents consist of NHRS stakeholders such as researchers (62,2%), policy makers (21,6%), and research users (16,2%). Overall performance of NHRS functions has been perceived as not well performed by 50,4% respondents. Good performances only on stewardship and producing research have been perceived by respondents. In the other hand, the performance of creating and sustaining resources, research utilization, access to scientific literatures and to media have been perceived unsatisfactorily by the respondents. Important contribution areas in improvement and strengthening the NHRS in Indonesia are: networking, facility, budget, collaboration and communication. While important contribution components in Indonesia are vision, human resources, ethics, budget, and allocation. The main research priorities were identified as future health problem and persistent health problem in all respondent’s groups. In summary, NHRS were not yet in optimum well functions, to strengthen the system: pledged to increase budget allocation and improve budget accountability; activating the national and local net working of health research and development, improvement of stewardship function of NHRS in its capacity as ‘good scientific leadership'. Key words: Health research system, performance assessment