Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households

<p>Background</p><p>Malaysia is no exception to the challenging <a title="Learn more about Health Care Financing" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/health-care-financing">health care financing</a> phenomenon of globali...

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Main Authors: Azimatun Noor Aizuddin, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Levy Library Press 2017-11-01
Series:Annals of Global Health
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Online Access:https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/190
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spelling doaj-88ae5295c567463980e154c7f3092a482020-11-24T22:13:49ZengLevy Library PressAnnals of Global Health2214-99962017-11-01833-465466010.1016/j.aogh.2017.10.002123Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian HouseholdsAzimatun Noor Aizuddin0Syed Mohamed Aljunid1Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaInternational Centre for Casemix & Clinical Coding, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait<p>Background</p><p>Malaysia is no exception to the challenging <a title="Learn more about Health Care Financing" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/health-care-financing">health care financing</a> phenomenon of globalization.</p><p>Objectives</p><p>The objective of the present study was to assess the ability to pay among Malaysian households as preparation for a future national health financing scheme.</p><p>Methods</p><p>This was a <a title="Learn more about Cross Sectional Study" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/cross-sectional-study">cross-sectional study</a> involving representative samples of 774 households in Peninsular Malaysia.</p><p>Findings</p><p>A majority of households were found to have the ability to pay for their health care. Household expenditure on health care per month was between MYR1 and MYR2000 with a mean (standard deviation [SD]) of 73.54 (142.66), or in a percentage of per-month income between 0.05% and 50% with mean (SD) 2.74 (5.20). The final analysis indicated that ability to pay was significantly higher among younger and higher-income households.</p><p>Conclusions</p>Sociodemographic and <a title="Learn more about Socioeconomic Status" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/socioeconomic-status">socioeconomic statuses</a> are important eligibility factors to be considered in planning the proposed national health care financing scheme to shield the needed group from catastrophic <a title="Learn more about Health Expenditures" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/health-expenditures">health expenditures</a>.https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/190ability to payability to pay for health carehealth financinghealth financing schemenational health financing scheme
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Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
Annals of Global Health
ability to pay
ability to pay for health care
health financing
health financing scheme
national health financing scheme
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Syed Mohamed Aljunid
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title Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
title_short Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
title_full Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
title_fullStr Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
title_full_unstemmed Ability to Pay for Future National Health Financing Scheme among Malaysian Households
title_sort ability to pay for future national health financing scheme among malaysian households
publisher Levy Library Press
series Annals of Global Health
issn 2214-9996
publishDate 2017-11-01
description <p>Background</p><p>Malaysia is no exception to the challenging <a title="Learn more about Health Care Financing" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/health-care-financing">health care financing</a> phenomenon of globalization.</p><p>Objectives</p><p>The objective of the present study was to assess the ability to pay among Malaysian households as preparation for a future national health financing scheme.</p><p>Methods</p><p>This was a <a title="Learn more about Cross Sectional Study" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/cross-sectional-study">cross-sectional study</a> involving representative samples of 774 households in Peninsular Malaysia.</p><p>Findings</p><p>A majority of households were found to have the ability to pay for their health care. Household expenditure on health care per month was between MYR1 and MYR2000 with a mean (standard deviation [SD]) of 73.54 (142.66), or in a percentage of per-month income between 0.05% and 50% with mean (SD) 2.74 (5.20). The final analysis indicated that ability to pay was significantly higher among younger and higher-income households.</p><p>Conclusions</p>Sociodemographic and <a title="Learn more about Socioeconomic Status" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/socioeconomic-status">socioeconomic statuses</a> are important eligibility factors to be considered in planning the proposed national health care financing scheme to shield the needed group from catastrophic <a title="Learn more about Health Expenditures" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/health-expenditures">health expenditures</a>.
topic ability to pay
ability to pay for health care
health financing
health financing scheme
national health financing scheme
url https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/190
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