Gambling in Malaysia: an overview

Many forms of gambling are legal and popular in Malaysia. Despite this, in Malaysia, research into gambling is limited and there is no coherent strategy to tackle gambling-related harms. This paper summarises the gambling landscape of Malaysia, law governing gambling and research done so far and giv...

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Autores principales: Rathakrishnan, Balan, George, Sanju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34287394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.55
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spelling pubmed-82744142021-07-19 Gambling in Malaysia: an overview Rathakrishnan, Balan George, Sanju BJPsych Int Special Paper Many forms of gambling are legal and popular in Malaysia. Despite this, in Malaysia, research into gambling is limited and there is no coherent strategy to tackle gambling-related harms. This paper summarises the gambling landscape of Malaysia, law governing gambling and research done so far and gives some recommendations on the way forward. Cambridge University Press 2021-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8274414/ /pubmed/34287394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.55 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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