Health and economic burden of COVID-19 in Malaysia between January 2020 and December 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable economic and disease burden in Malaysia, and during the three years the disease burden was comparable to that of all respiratory illnesses. Our estimates underestimate the full impact of COVID-19, as opportunity costs and health impacts of a diversion of services during surges of COVID-19 cases, and spill-over effects to other sectors of the economy, are not captured here.
Authors
- Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-2528)
- Sit Wai Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-4565)
- Ku Nurhasni Ku Abd Rahim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1603-3758)
- P. Abraham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1239-1363)
- Farzana Ali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-5268)
- Angela Devine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3321-8706)
- Taketo Tanaka
- Edifofon Akpan
- Natalie Carvalho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5599-2209)
- Izzuna Mudla Mohamed Ghazali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-0485)
Institutions
- Ministry of Health (MY)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Government of Malaysia (MY)
- Charles Darwin University (AU)
- Menzies School of Health Research (AU)
- National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia (MY)
- Melbourne Health (AU)
- WorldFish (MY)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Public Health
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105992
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00