Financing Universal Coverage in Malaysia: a case study
Open Access
- 22 June 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 12 (S1), S7
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-s1-s7
Abstract
One of the challenges to maintain an agenda for universal coverage and equitable health system is to develop effective structuring and management of health financing. Global experiences with different systems of health financing suggests that a strong public role in health financing is essential for health systems to protect the poor and health systems with the strongest state role are likely the more equitable and achieve better aggregate health outcomes. Using Malaysia as a case study, this paper seeks to evaluate the progress and capacity of a middle income country in terms of health financing for universal coverage, and also to highlight some of the key underlying health systems challenges.Keywords
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