Medical card insurance is a crucial tool that can assist on people paying for their medical cost. However, so many people are unaware of how importance having medical cards insurance is, they might not have enough coverage when they do. The study aims to determine the level of awareness towards importance of taking medical card insurance. The study involved 400 respondents by using quantitative survey method. Other than that, cross sectional study and convenience sampling method were used. Based on the data we collected through a set of questionnaires, which we analysed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences version 26, researcher can conclude that the level of awareness towards the importance of taking medical card insurance among Malaysian society is high (M=3.33).

The market for the halal food and beverage industry sector has experienced rapid growth in recent years, which indicate excellent investment opportunities. This paper examine the effect of Technical Efficiency (TE) on firm value in 5 selected influential countries in halal food and beverage sector based on Global Islamic Economy Report 2020. Two steps estimation was used to run the data, using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model to determine the company’s TE and panel data to test the effect of TE through firm value. The results show that Indonesia has the highest score for TE (62%), followed by Pakistan (59%), South Africa (57%), Malaysia (55%), and Singapore (52%), which means, in general, there is inefficiency in allocating resources over 38% up to 48% and needs to be improved by halal food and beverage companies in. Regarding panel data, all countries sample except Pakistan highlight that TE significantly affect company value. It indicates that the crucial part of managing efficiency can be a sign in stock market performance. The result shows that company managers should set efficiency strategies to their business process for creating sustainability and increase their value in the capital market. As for investors, this TE can be used as an indicator before choosing company stocks; if the company is efficient, then it is worthy of being one of the portfolio assets. Form the government side, the finding can help them to set appropriate policy setting to boost halal food and beverages industry such as giving subsidy or incentive to increase the efficiency ability of halal food and beverage companies and identify the industry’s strength by comparing the result of TE between 5 countries.