Determinant of Life Expectancy in Malaysia

Vignesh Nagarajah, Shankaran Kanadasan, Yogambigai Rajamoorthy

2018

Abstract

This paper studies the effect of urbanization on life expectancy in Malaysia from 1991 to 2016. To achieve the research objectives, data collected annually from World Bank database and Ordinary least square (OLS) method used to investigate the research variables. The results show that urbanization exposes Malaysian to better health care and has better life expectancy, yet, health expenditure has negatively influence with life expectancy in Malaysia. Generally, urbanization has positive health impact in Malaysia.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nagarajah V., Kanadasan S. and Rajamoorthy Y. (2018). Determinant of Life Expectancy in Malaysia.In Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS, ISBN 978-989-758-438-1, pages 97-103. DOI: 10.5220/0008787900970103

in Bibtex Style

@conference{skic-mhs18,
author={Vignesh Nagarajah and Shankaran Kanadasan and Yogambigai Rajamoorthy},
title={Determinant of Life Expectancy in Malaysia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS,},
year={2018},
pages={97-103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008787900970103},
isbn={978-989-758-438-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS,
TI - Determinant of Life Expectancy in Malaysia
SN - 978-989-758-438-1
AU - Nagarajah V.
AU - Kanadasan S.
AU - Rajamoorthy Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 97
EP - 103
DO - 10.5220/0008787900970103