Health care in Malaysia : the dynamics of provision, financing and access /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description:xxiii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge Malaysian studies series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6270869
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Other authors / contributors:Chee, Heng Leng.
Barraclough, Simon.
ISBN:0415418798 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780415418799 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0203964837 (ebk.)
9780203964835 (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Transformation of Health Care in Malaysia
  • Part 1. The State and the Private Sector in the Financing and Provision of Health Care
  • 1. The Growth of Corporate Health Care in Malaysia
  • 2. Regulating Malaysia's Private Health Care Sector
  • 3. Rising Health Care Costs: The Contradictory Responses of the Malaysian State
  • 4. Malaysian Health Policy in Comparative Perspective
  • 5. The Welfarist State Under Duress: Global Influences and Local Contingencies in Malaysia
  • 6. Equity in Malaysian Healthcare: An Analysis of Public Health Expenditures and Healthcare Facilities
  • Part 2. People's Access to Health Care
  • 7. Health Care for the Orang Asli: Consequences of Paternalism and Non-Recognition
  • 8. Women's Access to Health Care Services in Malaysia
  • 9. HIV-AIDS Health Care Policy and Practice in Malaysia
  • 10. Health Care and Long Term Care Issues for the Elderly
  • 11. Health Care in Sarawak: Model of a Public System
  • Epilogue: Civil Society and Health Care Policy in Malaysia