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NA TIONAL BL UEP RINT F OR BEHA V IOURAL INSIGHTS IN HEALTH
MAINS TREAMING BEHA V IOURAL SCIENCE F OR BET TER HEALTH

Malaysia has achieved significant health outcomes, broad health services coverage, and
financial risk protection since Independence. However, population health is facing significant
challenges including an ageing population with increasing burden of non-communicable
diseases (NCDs) and an overstretched health system (16). The system faces new health
challenges due to changes in lifestyle, urbanisation, and
planetary health issues such as climate change. These Embedding BI becomes
challenges have placed additional strain on the health integral to shifting the focus
system, with significant gaps becoming clear during the from merely treating
COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic highlighted the vital
role of health in the economy, social well-being, and national illnesses to adopting a new
security, emphasising the need for a high-performing paradigm centred on
health system. Accordingly, the Health White Paper (HWP) maintaining overall
proposes systemic and structural reforms to ensure the well-being.
Malaysian health system becomes more equitable,
sustainable, and resilient.

The HWP outlined several key challenges to be addressed:

Imbalance in
1 non-communicable 5 expenditure between
Rising burden of
hospital care and clinic
diseases
care

Emergence and Imbalance between
2 re-emergence of 6 funding versus
demands on the health
communicable
diseases system

Limitations in current
3 Impact of mental 7 structures related to
resource management,
health
governance, and
stewardship

Complex operating
4 and private sectors 8 environment vs. demands
Dichotomous service
for a coordinated multi-
delivery by the public
system, multi-sectoral
approach

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