Enhancing Anti-Corruption, Accountability and Transparency Laws in the Malaysia's Health Sector

Abstract

Good governance, alongside the principles of accountability and transparency, are potential strategies for combating corruption in the healthcare sector. This study aims to examine the role of law to curb the corrupt practices, and it employs a qualitative research methodology through a content analysis approach in which all relevant literature on corruption and law are reviewed. The major finding has significant implications for lawmakers to propound legislative framework for the risks of corruption in the healthcare sector towards promoting accountability and transparency. This paper concludes that the law is an effective tool for instigating change to the healthy anti-corruption environment.

Keywords: Corruption; risks; laws; healthcare

eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI7.3816