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    What Lies Ahead for Malaysian Healthcare?

    Onn, Lee Poh | December 2015
    Abstract
    Healthcare in Malaysia has been characterised by a strong public sector presence where government hospitals and clinics acted as a primary source of care. The healthcare system has also been lauded as a model for other developing countries to follow as it has succeeded in improving the health status of Malaysians over time. With the rising costs of healthcare over the last three decades, the government is now facing increasing pressures to restructure its healthcare system. Social healthcare insurance, corporatisation, and privatisation have been increasingly seen as possible measures to supplement the current healthcare system dominated by the public sector. In Malaysia, the involvement of government-linked companies in the private healthcare sector has, however, raised conflict-of-interest issues. Political economy factors will continue to play out; the private sector will continue to play an increasingly important role in the provision of healthcare while a long-awaited social healthcare insurance plan takes shape. Ultimately, clear rules of governance, regulations, and transparency have to be put in place to ensure that standards are maintained, conflict-of-interest issues are checked,mand that healthcare continues to remain accessible.
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    Onn, Lee Poh. 2015. What Lies Ahead for Malaysian Healthcare?. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6403.
    Keywords
    Project finance
    Development programs
    Development strategy
    Government programs
    Infrastructure projects
    Industrial development
    Social change
    Sanitation
    Diseases
    Water Quality
    Health Hazards
    Civil Society Development
    Infrastructure Development
    Infrastructure Development Projects
    Technology Development
    Underdevelopment
    Health Risk
    Health for All
    Health and Hygiene and the Poor
    Infrastructure
    Central planning
    Developing countries
    Partnership
    Joint venture
    Limited partnership
    Strategic alliances
    Sanitary engineering
    Sanitation systems
    Sanitation services
    Sanitary affairs
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    Theme
    Health
    Development
    Labor Migration
     
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