Systems thinking analyses for health policy and systems development : a Malaysian case study / edited by Jo. M. Martins, Indra Pathmanathan, David T. Tan, Shiang Cheng Lim, Pascale Allotey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martins, Jo. M., 1936- editor.

Series:

Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Malaysia.

Medical policy.

Medical care--Malaysia.

Medical care.

Integrated delivery of health care--Malaysia.

Integrated delivery of health care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvii, 510 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersections and interactions of health with a multitude of other systems and determinants. This book ambitiously takes on the challenge of presenting health systems as a coherent whole, by applying a systems-thinking lens. It focuses on Malaysia as a case study to demonstrate the evolution of a health system from a low-income developing status to one of the most resilient health systems today. A rich collaboration of multidisciplinary academics working with policymakers who were at the coalface of decision-making and practitioners with decades of experience, provides a candid analysis of what worked and what did not. The result is an engaging, informative and thought-provoking intervention in the debate. This title is Open Access.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Boxes

Biographies of Editors and Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Section I

1 An Introduction to Health Systems

2 Systems Thinking for Health System Improvement

Section II

3 Malaysia's Health and Socio-economic Transformation

4 Health Service Delivery: Primary Health Care

Case Study 4.1 REAP-WISE: Malaysia's Experiencein Integrated Primary Health Care Services

Case Study 4.2 Managed Care Organisations as Intermediaries in the Provision of Healthcare by GPs to Private Sector Employees

5 Health Service Delivery: Secondary and Tertiary Care

Case Study 5.1 Expanded Access to Dialysis Services through Public Funding of Private Delivery

6 Health Service Delivery: Disease Prevention and Control

Case Study 6.1 Adoption of Harm Reduction Strategies for Preventing HIV among Injecting Drug Users

7 Health Service Delivery: Environmental Health Services

Case Study 7.1 Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

Case Study 7.2 Clinical Waste Management

8 Health Workforce

Case Study 8.1 Unexpected Influx of New Medical Graduates Threatens to Overwhelm the Health System

9 Financing Health Care

Case Study 9.1 Development of a Case-Mix System for Improving Efficiency in Ministry of Health Hospitals

10 Health Information

Case Study 10.1 Challenges in Introducing Telehealth

11 Medical Products

Case Study 11.1 Challenges in Regulating Traditional Medical Products

12 Leadership and Governance

Case Study 12.1 Leadership Enabled Affordable Treatment of Hepatitis C in Malaysia

Section III

13 Lessons from a Health System in Evolution

14 Toward a Systems Thinking Theory for Health Systems.

Appendix I Systems Thinking Analysis of STC

Appendix II Supplementary Tables

Appendix III Supplementary Tables

Appendix IV Detailed Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

9781108960120

110896012X

9781108960328

1108960324

9781108954846

1108954847

OCLC:

1270978674