Ownership, control, and contention: Challenges for the future of healthcare in Malaysia

Chee, Heng Leng

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.036

Cited by 58 publications

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“…Across Southeast Asia, the provision of health care has been increasingly subject to neoliberal logic manifested in privatisation, capital market liberalisation and social-sector reforms (Chee, 2008(Chee, , 2010Ormond, 2013). In countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand there has been a move away from government-dominated health services towards increased privatisation and corporatisation of the health care systems in response to rising costs, concerns over future sustainability of tax-financed health systems and higher public expectations (Chongsuvivatwong et al, 2011).…”

Section: Remapping Responsibility For Health Carementioning

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‘Flexible bio-citizenship’ and international medical travel: Transnational mobilities for care in Asia

Whittaker

Chee

2016

International Sociology

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International medical travel (IMT) challenges the notion of health care as a responsibility of a nation-state to its citizens, tied to the territory of a nation-state. As patients travel for medical care, they invoke not territorialised notions of citizenship, but make new claims. In this article, the authors propose the term 'flexible bio-citizenship' that extends the notion of 'flexible citizenship' to describe transnational mobilities for the accumulation of biovalue. They argue that people who travel for medical care come from a variety of backgrounds, identities and circumstances for whom the physical and economic ability to travel and cross borders is a form of flexible social capital enabling them to access levels of care otherwise inaccessible to them. The article explores the implications upon citizenship for a diverse range of people who travel for their health care: from highly mobile cosmopolitan professional expatriate workers, regional border crossers, migrant workers, those who cannot afford care at home, patients whose status makes treatments unavailable, and outsourced patients forced to travel for care. Their mobility allows them to gain biovalue but also alters their citizenship relationships and perspectives.

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Section: Remapping Responsibility For Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Flexible bio-citizenship’ and international medical travel: Transnational mobilities for care in Asia

Whittaker

Chee

2016

International Sociology

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“…Ministry of Health in Malaysia did not impose any restrictions other than advertisement guidelines. Since the establishment of the inter-ministerial National Committee for Promotion of Medical and Health Tourism in 1998, Malaysia medical tourism has a support in the form of promotion, tax incentive, fee packaging, accreditation and packaging [3] As for the easiness of that, many ASEAN medical tourists visit Malaysia especially concentrated places like Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Melaka. Indonesian tourists would prefer to have medical treatment in Malaysia because of the price imposed is might be lower than their own local hospitals and the service provided definitely better than back in their country.…”

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Tourism Typologies and Satisfaction Level of Inbound ASEAN Tourists: Perspective from Malaysia

Konar¹,

Mothiravally²,

Kumar³

2016

Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum. 2016 - The 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia

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“…Interestingly, informal support from family members would lower the burden perceived by the caregivers in which it would help to share the caregiving responsibilities and relieved the chief caregiver on a temporary basis. Chee (2008) highlighted the incompleteness of healthcare transformation that spare out the funding issues generating gap between those that can afford to pay for private service and those who cannot afford to pay. The inequity in the healthcare system greatly affects low-wages groups and the elderly as they have limited income.…”

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The Formal and Informal Long-Term Caregiving for the Elderly: The Malaysian Experience

Goh¹,

Ming-ming²,

Lau³

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This paper examines the formal and informal caregiving for elderly in the Malaysian society under the absence of a structured long-term care environment. We surveyed 31 health care providers and 56 informal caregivers for elderly. The private for-profit care providers offer better facilities and services than non-profit centres. Females especially daughters were usually the informal caregivers to the elderly. Caregivers spent below USD$330 on long-term care expenses and relying heavily on public health care services. The results suggest government to implement a comprehensive social insurance for long-term care to ensure protection and equal treatment to be received by elderly.

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Ownership, control, and contention: Challenges for the future of healthcare in Malaysia

Cited by 58 publications

References 4 publications

‘Flexible bio-citizenship’ and international medical travel: Transnational mobilities for care in Asia

‘Flexible bio-citizenship’ and international medical travel: Transnational mobilities for care in Asia

Tourism Typologies and Satisfaction Level of Inbound ASEAN Tourists: Perspective from Malaysia

The Formal and Informal Long-Term Caregiving for the Elderly: The Malaysian Experience

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