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9780415418799

Health Care in Malaysia: The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415418799

  • ISBN10:

    0415418798

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 4/9/2007
  • Publisher: Routledge

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The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against statism in the 1980s considers the responses of the Malaysian state and government policy issues such as equity of provision, women's access to health care, HIV-AIDS health care, care for the elderly. The book offers a detailed examination of the changing face of health care in Malaysia, and its impact on Malaysian citizens, users and society.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The transformation of health care in Malaysia
The state and the private sector in the financing and provision of health care
The growth of corporate health care in Malaysia
Regulating Malaysia's private health care sector
Rising health care costs: the contradictory responses of the Malaysian state
Malaysian health policy in comparative perspective
The welfarist state under duress: global influences and local contingencies in Malaysia
Equity in Malaysian healthcare: An analysis of public health expenditures and healthcare facilities
People's access to health care
Health care for the Orang Asli: Consequences of paternalism and non-recognition
Women's access to health care services in Malaysia
HIV-AIDS health care policy and practice in Malaysia
Health care and long term care issues for the elderly
Health care in Sarawak: model of a public system
Epilogue: Civil society and health care policy in Malaysia
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