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Knowledge gained from this workshop is useful for NHF section in its journey to reform Malaysia
healthcare delivery system specifically for the establishment of the VHI. By applying strategic purchasing
in VHI, the purchasers are expected to influence providers to pursue equity, efficiency and quality in
health service delivery, which is the critical factors in improving the health system performance.

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Second SEAPRO-WPRO Health Financing Policy Workshop, Delhi on 19 to 22 June 2017

Source: National Health Financing (NHF), Planning Division, MoH
Apart from that, officers from NHF and Family Health Development Division as the delegates from
Malaysia, participated in the Second Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Universal Health
Coverage for the Western Pacific which was held in Manila, Philippines from 13 to 15 November 2017.
The WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific established the Universal Health Coverage Technical
Advisory Group (UHC TAG) in 2016 to provide advice to WHO and Member States on how to accelerate
achievement of UHC in the Region.

This second meeting of UHC TAG discussed on service delivery and financing and governance, focusing
on how countries can transform service delivery to respond adequately to the ongoing demographic
and epidemiological transitions, and how they can set priorities and allocate resources efficiently and
equitably for this purpose. During this meeting, Malaysia presented about the Enhanced Primary
Healthcare (EnPHC), Malaysia’s latest initiative to strengthen its healthcare services delivery at the
primary care level for all Malaysian citizens.

MALAYSIA NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS (MNHA) SECTION
In 2001 Ministry of Health (MoH), Malaysia embarked on a journey to produce quality national health
accounts information and thus, led to development and institutionalization of Malaysian National Health
Accounts (MNHA) Unit. Since its establishment, Malaysian National Health Accounts Unit strives to
provide policy makers with quality information for development of evidence-based health policies. The
Malaysia National Health Accounts data provides a wealth of useful macro-level health expenditure
information to assist not only policy makers, but also various researchers and other stakeholders.

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