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Rethinking health care commercialization: evidence from Malaysia

Nwagbara VC 1 , Rasiah R 2

Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Graduate Studies, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [email protected]
  • 2 Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [email protected]
Global Health, 2015;11:44.
PMID: 26582159 DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0131-y

Abstract

Against the backdrop of systemic inefficiency in the public health care system and the theoretical claims that markets result in performance and efficiency improvement, developing countries' governments have been rapidly commercializing health care delivery. This paper seeks to determine whether commercialization through an expansion in private hospitals has led to performance improvements in public hospitals.

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