• Asia Pac J Public Health · Jan 2002

    Health care reform and changes: the Malaysian experience.

    • Mohd Ismail Merican and Rohaizat bin Yon.
    • Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
    • Asia Pac J Public Health. 2002 Jan 1; 14 (1): 17-22.

    AbstractHealth care reform is an intentional, sustained and systematic process of structural change to one or more health subsystems to improve efficiency, effectiveness, patient choices and equity. Health care all over the world is continuously reforming with time. Health care reform has become an increasingly important agenda for policy change in both developed and developing countries including Malaysia. This paper provides an overview of the Malaysian health care system, its achievements, and issues and challenges leading to ongoing reform towards a more efficient and equitable health care system that possess a better quality of life for the population.

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