MNHA: Total (TEH) and Current (CHE) Expenditure on Health

Data as of 2022

Total and current expenditure on health in Malaysia, with a breakdown into public and private sectors.

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Health Expenditure

How is this data produced?

In general, national health accounts (NHA) seek to answer 4 questions pertaining to healthcare spending:

  1. How much is spent?
  2. Who spent it? (sources of financing)
  3. Where was it spent? (providers of healthcare)
  4. What was it spent for?(functions)

Malaysia's national health accounts are based on the Malaysian National Health Accounts (MNHA) framework, which is consistent with international NHA classifications but with minor modifications to suit local policy needs.

For this dataset specifically, total expenditure on health (TEH) comprises 'health expenditure' and 'health-related' expenditure from both public and private sectors.

  • Health expenditure consists of all expenditures or outlays of medical care, prevention, promotion, rehabilitation, community health activities, health administration and regulation with the predominant objective to improve health.
  • Health-related expenditure covers capital formation of healthcare provider institutions, education and training of health personnel, research and development, and all other health-related expenditures.

Current expenditure on health (CEH) is conceptually similar, but covers only health expenditure, i.e. it excludes health-related expenditure. The reason for publication of both TEH and CHE is that TEH (which has a broader scope) is used for domestic policy planning, while CHE is published for international comparability, as practiced by OECD and WHO countries since 2017. For a fuller description of the MNHA framework, you may refer to Chapter 2 of the most recent MNHA publication.

What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?

The data may be revised in future updates, in accordance with the latest methodologies.

Publication(s) using this data

MNHA 2022, the latest edition of the Malaysian National Health Accounts published by the Ministry of Health Malaysia.

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Dataset description

Total and current expenditure on health in Malaysia, with a breakdown into public and private sectors.

Variable definitions
  • Date
  • Variable
  • Sector
  • Expenditure (RM)
Last updated:

11 Nov 2024, 00:00

Next update:

N/A

Data source(s)
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
License

This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.

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Connect directly to the data with Python.

# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet import pandas as pd URL_DATA = 'https://storage.data.gov.my/healthcare/mnha.parquet' df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA) if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']) print(df)

Sample OpenAPI query

The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.

import requests import pprint url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=mnha&limit=3" response_json = requests.get(url=url).json() pprint.pprint(response_json)