Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Business and Economics

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

As the time passes the health care provision is getting more and more expensive. Traditionally the health care provision has been the duty of the governments, but because of increase in the cost of health care and fluctuation in the cost of health care, it is getting more difficult for the governments to maintain their role as health care provider. The governments want to become the regulators of health care services, rather than health care provider. The same is true for Malaysian government as well. This change of role is not that easy. Government has to consider many factors, the foremost of which is, who will assume the role of health care provider? And secondly what will be the mechanism of financing of that health care system? In order to look for the most appropriate system the Malaysian Government has put up a lot of effort. Sine 1983, the Economic Planning Unit has been involved in assessing and studying various ways of health care financing. The government has, in 1984 / 85, avails the services of the Westinghouse health system; a US based consultant firm to formulate a report about the option it has for the health care financing . Since the first Westinghouse study, the government has commissioned at least six (6) other studies on national health insurance and finance. These includes Birch and Davies study on the feasibility of introducing and establishing a heath security fund, and subsequently in 1990 an assessment of health care delivery and financing by professor Malcom Taylor from Canada.

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Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, 2000.

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