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The process of developing health sector’s way forwards took into accounts the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), Government Transformation Plans (GTPs), National Transformation 50 (TN50), MoH’s
Strategic Plans, 10 Priorities of The Minister of Health, and 8 Key Points of The Director General of
Health.

Based on the 12 groups of health’s issues and challenges identified in MTR of 11MP, five (5) focus
areas were identified to be the agendas for the next second half of 11MP, and they are; population
health, sustainable health delivery and financing system, health industry to boost the economy, ICT &
online health services, and multi-sectorial collaboration (Figure 1). These 5 focus areas are in lines
with 11MP’s strategic paper, ‘Achieving universal access to quality health services’.

Figure 1
Summary of Issues & Challenges and way forward (2018 to 2020) based on MTR MP11

Source: Health Policy and Plan Unit, Planning Division, MoH

MALAYSIA’S NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY (MNHP)

Currently, Malaysia has many micro health policies covering various specific health agendas,but they
are often implemented in silo. The leading health policies that exist now such as Malaysia 5-years Plans,
Health Service Transformation Plans, and MoH’s Strategic Plans only covered certain areas in health
and were developed for short term goals. For Malaysia to achieve high income country status by the
year 2020, there is a need to develop one long-term and holistic health policy that will determine the
healthcare strategies and way forward for now and the future. This policy needs a collective approval
from all stakeholders, to drive the nation towards the same goals.

On 10 January 2017, a meeting among MoH’s internal stakeholders on the preparation of preliminary
draft of MNHP was held, followed by a Technical Committee meeting on 25 January 2017. The
preliminary draft of MNHP was reviewed by the committee with the help of Dr. Lim Kuan Joo from World
Health Organization (WHO) who was appointed as the consultant in developing process of MNHP.
A workshop session with Dr. Lim Kuan Joo was held on 31 May 2017, followed by a presentation of
preliminary draft of MNHP to the Deputy Director General of Health (Research & Technical Support)
on 21 September 2017. It was then proposed to the Director General of Health on 4 October 2017.

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