The Care Industry in Numbers

By Yeong Pey Jung

September 2022 STATISTICS
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THE CARE INDUSTRY covers all aspects of care provided to a country’s population, and this includes healthcare, childcare, elderly care as well as health services provided by organisations and companies such as pathology labs and physiotherapy centres. Universal healthcare is provided for all Malaysians and public healthcare amenities are established in every state under the care of the Ministry of Health.Figure 1 depicts the public health facilities that are available in Penang. Seberang Perai Tengah is the only district with...

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Yeong Pey Jung

is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.

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