title: Health care reform and changes: the Malaysian experience.
abstract: Health 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.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: Mohd Ismail
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Merican
authors.forename: Rohaizat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: bin Yon
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006285:Health Planning; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D019456:Health Transition; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008490:Medical Informatics; D011057:Politics; D011332:Privatization; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012922:Social Change; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014195:Travel