Markets And Healthcare Services In Malaysia: Critical Issues

Prof. Dr. Rajah Rasiah, Prof. Dr. Nik Rosnah Wan Abdullah and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Makmor Tumin

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Type :	Academic Journal
Main Author :	Prof. Dr. Rajah Rasiah, Prof. Dr. Nik Rosnah Wan Abdullah and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Makmor Tumin
Title :	Markets And Healthcare Services In Malaysia: Critical Issues
Varying Form of Title :	International Journal of Institutions and Economies (2011), Vol. 3, No. 3, Pages 467-486
Content Type :	still image (rdacontent)
Media Type :	computer (rdamedia)
Carrier Type :	online resource (rdacarrier)

Publisher :	International Journal of Institutions and Economies
Year of Publication :	2011
Summary :	This paper examines the critical issues facing healthcare in Malaysia. It starts by reviewing the dominant arguments on ownership and healthcare provision, viz., neoclassical, evolutionary and heterodox and the politics of interest groups. Given the imperfections and asymmetries associated with healthcare, as well as its properties as a social good that should reach everyone, the paper adopts evolutionary and heterodox arguments, and the views of political scientists on civil society. It then explores out of pocket payment trends in the world. It is obvious that out of pocket payments have increased dramatically in the developing countries when government funding still dominates healthcare financing in most developed countries. Malaysia has experienced a rapid shift from welfare oriented healthcare practices until the 1980s to privatization thereafter so that the private share of healthcare reached 55.6 per cent in 2007. A combination of falling resources and brain drain confronting public hospitals, with an expanding supply of private providers explains the increasing shift toward private healthcare in Malaysia.
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