Policy Paper: Cancer Policy Recommendations For Parliamentarians & Policy...
More than 80 percent of these recommendations came from patients and their caregivers.
Launch Of The Cancer Care Working Group And Cancer Policy Recommendations For...
The Cancer Care Working Group aims to help influence public policies which improve outcomes, treatment and care of cancer in Malaysia.
“Are Women in Malaysia Getting Access to Cancer Care?”
In the 2016 edition of the Economist’s War on Cancer, Malaysia is estimated to record a 49% increase in breast cancer cases between 2012 to 2025. This is worrying as Malaysia recorded the lowest rate of five-year survivorship rate as well as the highest rate of mortality and incident rates in the region.
A Soda Tax Is Not Going To Solve The Obesity Problem
Earmarking this revenue would help address the shortfall in funding for prevention programmes.
A Quiet Anger
Increasing existing treatment coverage and the quality of care available should not be described by mere words, rhetoric and grand announcements but by firm commitments from both the public and private sector.
Public Health #7: Let’s Talk About Mental Health
We need to break the silence.
Public Health #3: Surviving Cancer
The financial realities of living with cancer.
Multiple policy reforms needed to close gap in cancer care
Cancer is the 4th most common cause of death in the country.
Malaysians must choose, not forced to be healthy
Influencing what people buy by making healthy food options more affordable to increase their consumption has been shown to be the most effective policy.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Galen Centre for Health & Social Policy