Public Health #5: Vote for Health
What will your vote bring?
The issue extends beyond just increasing the national budget allocation for healthcare.
Make up your own mind on who has pledged better for health
Supporting healthcare innovation helps ensure that there is motivation and incentive into the treatment of less common ailments such as rare diseases. People with these diseases should not be left behind.
Investing in digital solutions could dramatically improve productivity and efficiency, with benefits in both patient outcomes and cost.
Malaysia has one of the highest gender step gap out of 46 countries observed, ranking third place in high activity inequality between genders (just below Saudi Arabia and Qatar).
Malaysian progress and achievements in encouraging, cultivating and boosting home-grown innovation are also at risk.
We need to discuss how we can move forward, address concerns related to intellectual property protections, and support the government’s agenda of ongoing national healthcare reform.
Influencing what people buy by making healthy food options more affordable to increase their consumption has been shown to be the most effective policy.
When responding to the children and young people who suffer from inhalant addiction and dependency, let us first do no harm.