ArticleAsia-Pacific journal of public health2021
Private Health Insurance in Malaysia: Who Is Left Behind?
Article in Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Factors influencing the intention to purchase health insurance among middle-income Malaysians: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of supplementary private health insurance on out-of-pocket inpatient medical expenditure: evidence from Malaysia.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
- Healthcare cost coverage inequality and its impact on hypertension and diabetes: A five-year follow-up study in a Malaysian rural community.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Do patients need additional coverage for chronic ailments? Insights from hospital data.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Severity in Glaucoma Patients at Urban Private Eye Care Centres in Malaysia.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
- Factors associated with the enrollment of commercial medical insurance in China: Results from China General Social Survey.PloS one · 2024Article
- Effect of supplementary private health insurance on inpatient utilisation: Evidence from Malaysia.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Challenges and Strategies for Improving Access to Cancer Drugs in Malaysia: Summary of Opinions Expressed at the 2nd MACR International Scientific Conference 2022.Cancer management and research · 2023Article
- Health insurance status and its determinants among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary teaching hospital in Malaysia.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite various efforts introduced, private health insurance coverage is still low in Malaysia. The objective of this article is to find the factors associated with not having a private health insurance in Malaysia. We analyze data involving 19 959 respondents from the 2015 National Health Morbidity Survey. In this article, we describe the prevalence of not having health insurance and conducted binary logistic regression to identify determinants of uninsured status. A total of 56.6% of the study population was uninsured. After adjusting for other variables, the likelihood of being uninsured was higher among those aged 50 years and above, females, Malay/other Bumiputra ethnicities, rural, government/semigovernment, self-employed, unpaid workers and retirees, unemployed, lower education level, without home ownership and single/widowed/divorced, daily smoker, underweight body mass index, and current drinker. The likelihood of being uninsured also increased with increasing household size while the inversed trend was seen for household income. A substantial proportion of population in Malaysia did not have private health insurance, and these subgroups have limited preferential choices for provider, facility, and care.
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