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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.
The difference between maternal mortality in the industrialized and
developing world is greater than any other development indicator.
The apparent lack of progress in this area has generated a sense of
hopelessness. Malaysia and Sri Lanka are two of the very few
developing countries that have succeeded in reducing maternal
mortality to levels comparable to many industrialized countries.
This study provides the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of
the factors that contributed to maternal mortality decline in
Malaysia and Sri Lanka over the last 50-60 years. It considers
policy issues, health system developments, health system
expenditures in maternal health, and the use in both countries, of
professionally trained midwives.
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.
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