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.
Author(s): H. Barrac Chee
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 248
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Tables......Page 8
Figures......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Foreword......Page 15
Abbreviations and glossary of Malay terms......Page 21
Introduction: The transformation of health care in Malaysia......Page 26
Part I: The state and the private sector in the financing and provision of health care......Page 42
1 The growth of corporate health care in Malaysia......Page 44
2 Regulating Malaysia’s private health care sector......Page 65
3 Rising health care costs: The contradictory responses of the Malaysian state......Page 84
4 Malaysian health policy in comparative perspective......Page 97
5 The welfarist state under duress: Global influences and local contingencies in Malaysia......Page 110
6 Equity in Malaysian health care: An analysis of public health expenditures and health care facilities......Page 127
Part II: People’s access to health care......Page 142
7 Health care for the Orang Asli: Consequences of paternalism and non-recognition......Page 144
8 Women’s access to health care services in Malaysia......Page 162
9 HIV/AIDS health care policy and practice in Malaysia......Page 179
10 Health care and long-term care issues for the elderly......Page 195
11 Health care in Sarawak: Model of a public system......Page 212
Epilogue: Civil society and health care policy in Malaysia......Page 233
Index......Page 243
