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

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Author: Nurul-Ain Mohd-Tahir, Thomas Paraidathathu and Shu-Chuen Li
Publisher: SAGE Open Medicine
Year: 2015
Number of Pages: 3: 2050312115596864
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Summary

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%).