Health care delivery in Malaysia: changes, challenges and champions

Thomas, Susan; Beh, Loo-See; Nordin, Rusli Bin

doi:10.4081/jphia.2011.e23

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“…Malaysia's healthcare system is a two-tier system consisting of both the public and private sectors. [1,2] The public healthcare system, established in the early 1960s, is funded by the government mainly from taxes on earned income and provides service to everyone through a network of general hospitals, district hospitals and health clinics. [1] Meanwhile, the private sector provides non-subsidised, fee-for-service health services to the public through networks of community pharmacies, private clinics and hospitals.…”

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Job satisfaction, organisation commitment and retention in the public workforce: a survey among pharmacists in Malaysia

Chua

Yee²,

Sim³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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Job satisfaction, organisation commitment and retention in the public workforce: a survey among pharmacists in Malaysia

Chua

Yee²,

Sim³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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“…The Second National Health and Morbidity Survey in 1996 reported that 88.5% of the population stays within 5 km of a health facility. 3 Meanwhile, the issue of equity in health care remains a concern especially for the indigenous, rural and hard core poor. Between the years 1997 and 2002, the proportion of public to private sector healthcare expenditure ranged from 50:50 to 50:44 of the total expenditure on health.…”

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Pharmacy practice in Malaysia

Hassali

See

2014

J Pharm Pract Res

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Background: The pharmacists' roles have been expanding around the globe in the recent years. In Malaysia, healthcare system is a two-tier system consisting of the public and private sectors. Pharmacy service in Malaysia came into existence in 1951 with the enactment of three main legislations governing its profession, namely, the Registration of Pharmacist Act 1951, Poison Act 1952 and Dangerous Drug Act 1952. However, the absence of dispensing right has limited the community pharmacists' professional roles to deliver pharmaceutical care, optimise their clinical knowledge and utilise their skill. Aims: To describe the overview of pharmacy practice in Malaysia, by discussing on the history, challenges and future of this profession. Methods: Electronic databases MEDLINE and PUBMED were searched for articles published in English. The keywords community pharmacy, pharmacy practice, Malaysia and pharmaceutical care were used with each database. The articles were independently identified by each researcher. Results: A total of 8 full papers and 9 government reports were retrieved and critically summarised for this review. Conclusions: There is a need of transformation to bring improvement in pharmacy practice. Besides the policy makers, community pharmacists play a pivotal role to transform the current practice to a more comprehensive, clinically inclined and quality practice.

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“…On the other hand, this figure is higher than nearby countries like China (13.8%) [69, 84], Hong Kong (25.8%) [69, 98] and Philippines (27.0%) [69, 99]. This could be due to the fact that Malaysia has been improving health care facilities with more clinics and hospitals being built ensuring better access to health care [100]. Males achieved a better control of blood pressure than females.…”

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Prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension in Malaysia 1980 – 2017: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Chow

Jun

Ching

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3Background: 4 Hypertension is a common public health problem worldwide and is a well-known risk factor 5 for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, contributing to high morbidity and mortality. 6 However, there is no systematic review and meta-analysis that has been done in a multi-ethnic 7 population like Malaysia. This systematic review aims to determine the trend in prevalence, 8 awareness and control of hypertension in Malaysia. 9 10 Methods: 11 Systematic searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, Cumulative Index to Nursing 12 and Allied Health Literature, Malaysian Medical Repository and Malaysia Citation Index 13 published between 1980 and 2017. All original articles in English were included. Studies 14 included were those on adults aged 18 years and above. Studies of prevalence in children and 15 adolescents and pregnancy related hypertension were excluded. Two authors independently 16reviewed the studies, carried out data extraction and performed quality assessment. 17Heterogeneity between studies and publication bias was assessed and effect size was pooled 18 3 1 2 Conclusion: 3 Three in 10 adults aged 18 years old and above have hypertension, whereas four in 10 adults 4 aged 30 years old and above have hypertension. Four out of 10 are aware of their hypertension 5 status and only one-third of them who were under treatment achieved control of their 6 hypertension. Concerted efforts by policymakers and healthcare professionals to improve the 7 awareness and control of hypertension should be of high priority. 8 9 Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Cinahl), MyCite [7] 2 and MyMedR [8]. The search strategy was based on terms related to: (prevalence) and 3 (awareness) and (control) and (hypertension or high blood pressure) and (Malaysia) and 4 combination of these using Boolean operators, adapted from previous reviews, and a 5 combination of expanded MeSH term and free-text searches were conducted. A combination 6 of expanded MeSH term and free-text searches were used as shown in Appendix 3. Cross 7 reference of all selected articles were scanned for additional studies. If more than one article 14 fulfilling the following criteria were included into the analysis: (1) Studies including the 15 general population who are 18 years old and above; 2) studies on prevalence of hypertension 16 diagnosed using digital automated or mercury sphygmomanometer 3) studies which were on 17 either prevalence, awareness, control of blood pressure or hypertension individually or any 18 combination of the three; (4) hypertension was defined as BP≥140/90 mmHg according to JNC 19 5; (5) studies on prevalence at BP screening campaigns 6) prevalence which was based either 20 on physician-diagnosed hypertension or on antihypertensive medications; (7) awareness was 21 defined as knowing one's own hypertension status or having been diagnosed as hypertension 22 previously; (8) control was defined as achieving target blood pressure of less than 140/90 23 mmHg; (9) studies in English only. 24 25...

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Health care delivery in Malaysia: changes, challenges and champions

Cited by 73 publications

References 23 publications

Job satisfaction, organisation commitment and retention in the public workforce: a survey among pharmacists in Malaysia

Job satisfaction, organisation commitment and retention in the public workforce: a survey among pharmacists in Malaysia

Pharmacy practice in Malaysia

Prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension in Malaysia 1980 – 2017: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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