scholarly journals Positioning Malaysia in Medical Tourism: Implication on Economic Growth in ASEAN Integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Au Yong Hui Nee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Limited Length ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community

With a rapid growth of medical tourism in the country, the Malaysian Government is under pressure to make the sector of benefit to the public healthcare services. Purpose: This paper attempts to deepen the understanding of the development of medical tourism on destination countries� healthcare systems and the effect toward economy growth. Methodology: Mix methods were applied in the paper with data for the duration of 2000 � 2015 obtained from sources including Malaysia Health Tourism Council (MHTC) and World Bank Indicators. Analysis of the paper includes t-test of gross national products and medical tourism receipts. The paper also shares strategies needed for effective promotion of medical tourism in a medical tourism decision model. Findings: The result shows that ASEAN Economic Community is likely to bring in higher trade volumes in health services. This paper concludes that medical tourism plays an important role in economy by tripling medical tourism receipts to RM900 million in tandem with the economic growth. Limitations: The findings should be interpreted with caution. Practical implications: Upcoming opportunities are potential medical travellers from less advanced ASEAN countries. Social implications: Growth of medical tourism should not lead to �brain drain�. Originality: The study is one of its kinds as it highlights by the use of mix mode in analysing the sector�s economic contribution in a trans-boundary tourism context in a modified medical tourism model. Limitations: For the qualitative analysis of this paper on top of limited length of data for quantitative analysis, the findings should be interpreted with caution.Keywords: Decision Process, Economic Integration, Healthcare, Education & Welfare, Health Tourism, Marketing Strategy, Medical Tourism

scholarly journals Intimate Labor at Biomedical Frontlines: Situated Knowledges of Female Community Health Workers in the Management of COVID-19 in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghamitra Das ◽  
Samhita Das
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Community

Media reports of the COVID-19 pandemic in India have highlighted the important role that India’s female community health workers, the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), have played in managing COVID infections in India. This paper explores the epistemic basis of ASHA work to understand the significance of their role. Through a discourse analysis of textual media articles, we show that the ASHAs’ routine and COVID-related caregiving practices are a form of embodied, intimate labor rooted in their situated, community-oriented knowledge. This labor is devalued as emotional and feminized care work, which denies the ASHAs professional status in the public healthcare system of India and, in turn, reflects a hierarchy among health practitioners that stems from the status of objectivity/disembodiment in biomedicine. We find that, despite their low status in the public health system, ASHA workers develop a self-concept that enables them to self-identify as healthcare professionals, motivating them to continue providing essential healthcare services during the pandemic. We argue that an official recognition of the epistemic value of ASHA work would help to overcome the age-old nature/culture dichotomy that informs what counts as valuable, legitimate, formal medical knowledge. Furthermore, our analysis provides a critique of the gendered devaluation of care work within a political economy of health increasingly dictated by a neoliberal logic.

scholarly journals A Neglected Dimension of Medical Tourism Destination Impacts: A Synthesis of Observations and Convictions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Sindhu Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor

Medical tourism based on transnational journeys for health care, cure, and well-being is being widely discussed in the literature. As a fast-developing phenomenon, there are different views and perspectives on the concerns of medical tourists and various impacts created in destination areas. This paper critically observes the exertions of medical tourism on destination areas in the light of economic and socio-cultural influences. This paper tries to bring out the muddles of the phenomenon based on empirical research. The paper suggests that the socio-cultural impact of medical tourism on the health care of the poor local people must be viewed seriously and calls for rigid and efficient legislation from the authorities to enable and strengthen the public healthcare system.

scholarly journals MALAYSIAN PUBLIC SECTOR SIZE: A COMPARISON WITH OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (Number 1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Noor Afza Amran ◽  
Halimah @ Nasibah Ahmad ◽  
Nor Laili Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Optimal Size ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Key Indicators

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the size of the public sector (based on percentage of public sector expenditures to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and percentage of public sector revenues to GDP) of Malaysia and compare it with other Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. This study utilised a descriptive approach to compare the size of Malaysian public sector with other ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data were retrieved from 2000 to 2014 (15 years) that involved examination of documents from Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries Reports. Findings revealed that Malaysia ranks number three in terms of the size of public sector among ASEAN countries. Findings also indicated that the Malaysian percentage of public sector expenditure to GDP is around 20% to 30% which is considered as optimal size for the public sector. Malaysia also shows a deficit budget for 2000 to 2014, and similar trends were reported for other ASEAN countries. Meanwhile, the limitations of this study are that it is descriptive in nature and does not test any relationships between variables. Hence, future research may take into account other factors such as economic growth and government efficiency, and test relationships with the size of the public sector.

ANALISIS PENERAPAN PSAK NO. 102 UNTUK PEMBIAYAAN MURABAHAH PADA KPN IAIN SAMARINDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-316
Author(s):  
Parno Parno ◽  
Tikawati Tikawati
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
New Products ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community

Penelitian ini dilakukan di KPN IAIN Samarinda dengan judul: Analisis Penerapan PSAK No. 102 Untuk Pembiayaan Murabahah Pada KPN IAIN Samarinda. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui adalah untuk mengetahui kesesuaian penerapan akuntansi murabahah pada KPN IAIN Samarinda dengan Pernyataan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan Syariah No.102 Tentang Akuntansi Murabahah. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan studi pustaka dan wawancara. Salah satu pendekatan dalam penelitian yang berbasis literatur yaitu analisis komparasi. Cara ini membandingkan obyek penelitian dengan konsep pembanding. Untuk menentukan kesesuaian praktik akuntansi murabahah yang diterapkan KPN IAIN Samarinda digunakan aturanaturan atau standar yang terdapat dalam PSAK Syariah khususnya PSAK No.102.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa perlakuan akuntansi murabahah pada KPN IAIN Samarinda yang berkaitan dengan pengakuan dan pengukuran, penyajian dan pengungkapan belum sepenuhnya sesuai dengan PSAK No. 102. Secara garis besar perlakuan akuntansi yang dilakukan oleh KPN IAIN Samarinda telah sesuai dengan prinsip akuntansi yang diterima umum yaitu PSAK No. 102. Tetapi masih ada pada saat terjadi tunggakan angsuran dan penerimaan angsuran tunggakan, implementasinya KPN IAIN Samarinda tidak mencatat jurnal apapun atau tidak ada perlakuan akuntansi. Seharusnya dalam PSAK No. 102 diatur pada saat terjadinya tunggakan angsuran dan penerimaan angsuran tunggakan, margin diakui proporsional dengan kas yang diterima. ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has started on January 1, 2016. This agreement was reached by the 10 members of ASEAN in 2007 to create a single market in Southeast Asia. ASEAN countries are doing the deal consists of Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The purpose of creation of this MEA, based on the ASEAN charter is in an effort to boost the region’s economy by increasing the competitiveness of ASEAN in regional and international arena as the economy grows evenly.Muslim entrepreneurs have very close ties with the national economic growth. They have very important roles in the economy of Indonesia especially in the era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). There are at least seven roles of Muslim entrepreneurs in the Indonesian economy in the era of the MEA, i.e., increasing the productivity of goods and services, increasing per capita income, encouraging innovation of new products, capable of creating jobs, providing ease and convenience of life, encouraging progress of science and technology, and increasing state revenue from tax sector.

Hierarchical Planning Models for Public Healthcare Supply Chains

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-122
Author(s):  
Hassan Yar Bareach ◽  
Wafa Malik ◽  
Rania Sohail ◽  
Areeb Javaid ◽  
Muhammad Naiman Jalil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Hierarchical Planning ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Planning Models

This chapter focuses on the hierarchical planning and execution for supply chain management in public healthcare services. The authors first introduce tiered organizational and services delivery structure of public healthcare services followed by various supply chain issues that public healthcare services encounters. They then review hierarchical planning and execution discussions for the strategic, tactical, and operational decisions in supply chain literature. They continue the discussion with public healthcare services cases on medicine and equipment maintenance supply chains. They compare hierarchical planning execution discussions in supply chain management literature vis-a-vis healthcare services cases. Their main argument is that much can be gained by the public healthcare services by striving for reduced information asymmetry and employing appropriate functional aggregation at various levels of the hierarchically organized public healthcare supply chains.

scholarly journals ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF PATIENT SATISFACTION ON PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FACILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-181
Author(s):  
Ephrem Habtemichael Redda ◽  
Jhalukpreya Surujlal
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
South African ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnic Grouping

Purpose of study: The purpose of this study was to assess patient satisfaction levels within South African public healthcare facilities. The influence of gender and ethnic grouping (race) perceptions of satisfaction of healthcare services was investigated. Methodology: The study followed a cross-sectional research design and a quantitative research method. The data was collected as part of the General Household Survey in 2018 by Statistics South Africa (the national statistics service of South Africa). Descriptive statistics and cross-tabulation were performed to address the research objectives of the study. Main findings: The results show that the majority of the patients who participated in the survey are satisfied with the public healthcare service they received. The leading provinces that achieved very satisfied patients are Limpopo, the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng. Applications of the study: The study is important in many ways as it highlights the discrepancies of healthcare provision to the public health decision-makers. For example, the results show that generally, the male patients were slightly more satisfied with the healthcare services than their female counterparts. In terms of ethnic grouping, it appears that white patients are generally more satisfied with the public healthcare services they receive than other race groups. Novelty/originality of study: A study of this nature has not been conducted in South Africa apart from the anecdotal reports of the department of health and Statistics South Africa. The study delved to analyze the public healthcare service in all provinces of the republic and also provided insight into gender and racial perception of healthcare services in the country.

scholarly journals The public healthcare sector and governance in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Melody Brauns
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Healthcare Sector

This article reviews literature on governance in order to facilitate an analysis of the governance of the South African public healthcare sector. Some of the key theoretical perspectives have been presented on how best to organise the state and its bureaucracy. Theorists have long interrogated in what way public institutions foster or impede economic growth. Evans and Rauch point out for example, that the role of bureaucratic authority structures in facilitating economic growth has been a sociological concern since Max Weber’s classic contributions almost 100 years ago. These debates and others are explored in this article with specific reference to the provision of equitable public healthcare. Weber’s theory on rational bureaucracy as well as New Public Management will be reviewed as these theories offer two distinct approaches to governance

scholarly journals Scientific Research In The Health Tourism Market: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
N. Letunovska ◽  
A. Kwilinski ◽  
B. Kaminska
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Detailed Classification ◽  
Depth Analysis

The authors pay attention to bibliographic analysis in the field of health tourism. The primary purpose of the study is to find out which countries’ works predominate in scientific circles, and which nationalities have the most significant influence in the scientific community in terms of the number and content of their research. In particular, they do an in-depth analysis of researches in health tourism marketing. The authors put forward hypotheses about the growing popularity of marketing research in this category, which they confirmed during their investigation. Besides, the study concluded that most articles in health tourism marketing are analytical, systematizing data from secondary sources. The authors constructed a visualized representation of the relationships of important concepts, namely the services market, tourism market, health, and medical tourism. The total number of articles and cited articles in the authoritative world scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science have been performed. TOP authors and countries that make the most considerable contribution to the number of studies of the selected category are selected. The main keywords used in articles on health tourism are systematized, among which it is possible to single out a cluster of purely marketing concepts. The authors constructed a PRISMA chart to cut off less relevant articles and select those related to the marketing aspects of the health services market. The inferences made it possible to form a detailed classification of health tourism by identifying key categories and the role of components of the tourist offer in them. The author’s research will be useful for further research in health tourism, as it provides a basis for some of the works already analyzed and describes the tools for bibliographic analysis of literature sources. Keywords: health tourism market, marketing in health tourism, medical tourism, preventive tourism, PRISMA diagram.

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