Quality use of medicine in a developing economy: Measures to overcome challenges in the Malaysian healthcare system

Malaysia inherits a highly subsidized tax-based public healthcare system complemented by a fee-for-service private sector. Population health in Malaysia has considerably improved since independence using a relatively small amount of gross domestic product (~4%). Brain drain of highly specialized per...

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Main Authors: Nurul-Ain Mohd-Tahir, Thomas Paraidathathu, Shu-Chuen Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-07-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312115596864