Purpose: The objective of this study is to examine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with health care expenditure among households in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: This study examines health care participation decision and amount of expenditure using the exponential Type...

This paper examines how socio-demographic and health-lifestyle factors determine participation and duration of leisure-time physical activity in Malaysia. Based on the Malaysia Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance-1 data, Heckman's sample selection model is employed to estimate the probability...