- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
Ministry of Health
2023-2025
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected healthcare utilisation worldwide, underscoring the importance of monitoring it to indicate whether essential health services were maintained during crises. This study explored how outpatient department (OPD) in public primary care facilities Malaysia by analysing trends and comparing across geographical regions, including urban-rural disparities. Monthly OPD attendance from 1,053 clinics Malaysia, January 1, 2019, June 30, 2021, was analysed....
Ensuring quality in healthcare calls for a coordinated, systematic, congruous, and sustained approach. Nevertheless, it demands defining what the of means local context. Presently, Malaysian system utilizes various definitions across different initiatives levels healthcare, which can lead to fragmented or ineffective improvement. The study aims describe process undertaken developing an explicit definition tailored context, is currently lacking. A pluralistic method was used explore...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Maintaining essential health services, including maternal and child (MCH), while addressing the is an enormous task. This study aimed assess impact of on utilisation MCH services in Malaysian public primary care.A retrospective analysis was conducted using national administrative data from 1124 care clinics. Eight indicators were selected measure service covering antenatal, postnatal, women's health,...