Skripsi
DAMPAK PENYALURAN BANTUAN SOSIAL PANGAN TERHADAP KELUHAN KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT DI PROVINSI SUMATERA SELATAN TAHUN 2019-2023
This study aims to examine the impact of Food Social Assistance (BSP) distribution on public health complaints in South Sumatra Province during the period 2019–2023. This research employs a quantitative approach using panel data regression. The appropriate model applied is the Random Effect Model (REM) with Robust Standard Error to generate more accurate estimates. The data were obtained from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS) and from the budget realization data of the Food Social Assistance program from the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. The regression results without control variables show that BSP has a coefficient of –1.33881 (p = 0.07034) on public health complaints, indicating that BSP tends to reduce health complaints, although the effect is not statistically significant. After including control variables—namely poverty, income inequality, and expenditure level—the coefficient becomes –1.38668 (p = 0.17820), indicating that the effect remains negative but its level of significance weakens. When the control variables are included partially, the poverty rate becomes a significant variable with a coefficient of –2.36976 (p = 0.01332). This implies that poverty plays a crucial role in enabling BSP to have a significant effect on reducing public health complaints. In other words, variations in health complaints are more strongly explained by differences in poverty levels across regions than by the amount of BSP budget allocation. Meanwhile, the control variables of income inequality (Gini Ratio) and per capita expenditure, when examined partially, do not make BSP statistically significant. These findings indicate that variations in public health complaints in South Sumatra Province during the study period are more strongly influenced by poverty factors. Therefore, poverty is the most determining factor in this research model. Consequently, food social assistance programs expected to reduce health complaints must be integrated with poverty reduction policies, as food assistance programs do not directly reduce public health complaints and need to be mediated through improvements in the economic conditions or welfare of poor households.