The Malaysian health care system: Ecology, plans, and reforms

Family Medicine and Community Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 19-29

  Sebastian, Andrea ^a   Alzain, Mohamed Ali ^a,d   Asweto, Collins Otieno ^a,b   Mahara, Gehendra ^a   Guo, Xiuhua ^a   Song, Manshu ^a   Wang, Youxin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Municipal Key Lab of Trusted Computing   (China)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d University of Dongola   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Health care; Health care reform; Malaysia; One care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983490072     PISSN: 23056983     EISSN: 20098774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15212/FMCH.2016.0101     Document Type: Article

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