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  1. Nocht PB
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  2. Milne JJC
    Med J Malaya, 1948;2:161-73.
    This is an interesting piece of Colonial history, compiled, one presumes, from official reports. It cannot satisfactorily be summarized. The author deals with his subject under various heads: hospitals, health legislation, dangerous infectious diseases, prevailing diseases, beriberi, fever and malaria, dysentery, and diarrhoea, influenza and enteric fever. In a table are given the numbers of cases of smallpox, cholera, plague, beriberi, dysentery, diarfhoea and fevers reported each year from 1890 to 1939. The only one of these to show steady reduction is beriberi, which began to decline from figures over 2,000 per annum before the 1914-18 war to 69-444 per annum from 1930 to 1939. Plague was never common and neither cholera nor smallpox was responsible for large numbers of cases. The author does not give any systematic accounts of the outstanding investigations made during the period, but rather quotes opinions expressed by Government servants, medical or lay, in their reports. Charles Wilcocks.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  3. SCOTT RW, STALBOW RB
    J R Army Med Corps, 1950 Oct;95(4):196-99.
    PMID: 14795504
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases*
  4. AUDY JR
    Med J Malaya, 1956 Sep;11(1):21-32.
    PMID: 13399540
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/transmission*
  5. WELLS CW
    Med J Malaya, 1956 Sep;11(1):71-5.
    PMID: 13399544
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/transmission*
  6. RODDIE TW
    Med J Malaya, 1960 Dec;15:62-4.
    PMID: 13742507
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases*
  7. Wastie ML
    Trop Geogr Med, 1975 Mar;27(1):17-24.
    PMID: 1138449
    The organisation of the radiological services in Malaysia is described and those diseases in which radiology plays an important part in diagnosis are discussed. As radiology embraces all specialities a pattern of diseases emerges which is different from that seen in the West. The control of infectious diseases, the general improvement in health care and the more sophisticated radiological investigations now available mean that in future radiology will play a much more important part in diagnosis and management of patients.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/radiography
  8. Chen PC
    Med J Malaysia, 1977 Dec;32(2):100-2.
    PMID: 614474
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/transmission
  9. Sekarajasekaran IA
    PMID: 538513
    Development of a human community are not without changes in its environment. Such changes result in either beneficial or adverse effects on human health. In Malaysia, in the wake of the New Economic Policy aimed at the redressing of the poor population and income distribution, development of the nation has brought about various changes in the environment. Some of these changes have elevated basic public health problems, while others, particularly new agricultural practices and industrialisation programmes with urbanisation trends, have brought a new set of problems due to water pollution and sanitation. Various measures are being taken to protect and to improve the environment so that progress can be realised with minimum adverse effects. This also calls for assistance from international sources, in terms of expertise, training and funds.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/transmission
  10. Leng CH
    Int J Health Serv, 1982;12(3):397-417.
    PMID: 7118330
    The health of a population and the development of health services in a country at a particular time in history are directly linked to the socioeconomic system. This paper discusses health and health services in Malay Peninsula during the time that it was a British colony. Economic production under British colonialism, which is basically a capitalist system, is organized primarily for the purpose of realizing profits. The health of the population is in direct conflict with and generally subordinated to this main objective. The pattern of health that emerges reflects this general framework. Moreover, health services under the colonialist system are developed primarily to serve the economic interests of the colonialists. Hence, the structure of health services is biased toward curative medicine and centered mainly in the urban areas.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/epidemiology
  11. Lo EKC
    Family Practitioner, 1982;5:7-11.
    The importance of epidemiology and epidemilogical knowledge of plantation health and disease in the planning of health care & effective management of a plantation is highlighted. The results of the survey of endemic diseases in the estates in Peninsular Malaysia are presented and compared with national disease patterns. The disease patterns in the plantations are similar to those for the country in general. Differences that exist are due to differences in the ecology of the plantations. The health effects of ecological changes consequent on development and progress are referred to. Most of the endemic communicable diseases encountered in the plantations can be prevented and controlled through the improvement of the micro environment of the plantations and the utilisation of simple available appropriate technologies for health care and services.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  12. Ton SH, Lopez CG, Cheong KS, Noriah R
    Singapore Med J, 1984 Aug;25(4):244-6.
    PMID: 6505725
    The infectiousness with regard to HBV Infection of staff and patients in various units of the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur
    was assessed. It was found that all units, with the exception of the obstetric unit, were equally high risk areas. At least 50% of the patients in all these units had one or more of the markers. Among the medical staff, the anaesthetists had the highest
    incidence of HBV markers (100%) while medical officers who had worked for three years or more were more likely to have to
    have the HBV markers. The degree of infectiousness of the nurses In HDU and ICU/OT was found to be similar.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/immunology*
  13. Fix AG
    Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 1984 Oct;65(2):201-12.
    PMID: 6507610
    A Monte Carlo simulation based on the population structure of a small-scale human population, the Semai Senoi of Malaysia, has been developed to study the combined effects of group, kin, and individual selection. The population structure resembles D.S. Wilson's structured deme model in that local breeding populations (Semai settlements) are subdivided into trait groups (hamlets) that may be kin-structured and are not themselves demes. Additionally, settlement breeding populations are connected by two-dimensional stepping-stone migration approaching 30% per generation. Group and kin-structured group selection occur among hamlets the survivors of which then disperse to breed within the settlement population. Genetic drift is modeled by the process of hamlet formation; individual selection as a deterministic process, and stepping-stone migration as either random or kin-structured migrant groups. The mechanism for group selection is epidemics of infectious disease that can wipe out small hamlets particularly if most adults become sick and social life collapses. Genetic resistance to a disease is an individual attribute; however, hamlet groups with several resistant adults are less likely to disintegrate and experience high social mortality. A specific human gene, hemoglobin E, which confers resistance to malaria, is studied as an example of the process. The results of the simulations show that high genetic variance among hamlet groups may be generated by moderate degrees of kin-structuring. This strong microdifferentiation provides the potential for group selection. The effect of group selection in this case is rapid increase in gene frequencies among the total set of populations. In fact, group selection in concert with individual selection produced a faster rate of gene frequency increase among a set of 25 populations than the rate within a single unstructured population subject to deterministic individual selection. Such rapid evolution with plausible rates of extinction, individual selection, and migration and a population structure realistic in its general form, has implications for specific human polymorphisms such as hemoglobin variants and for the more general problem of the tempo of evolution as well.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/genetics
  14. Chee CS
    Family Practitioner, 1984;7:9-14.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  15. Bosco J
    Ann Acad Med Singap, 1988 Apr;17(2):251-3.
    PMID: 3044263
    Immunology is a discipline that traverses all branches of clinical medicine. Thus since about ten years ago major hospitals in Malaysia established routine clinical immunology services particularly in the diagnosis of autoimmune/connective tissue disorders. More recently these laboratories have ventured into basic research in Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever, Leukaemia Immunology, Nasopharyngeal Cancer and Leprosy. The rationale for these projects together with early results from them are discussed.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/immunology
  16. Arokiasamy JT
    Med J Malaysia, 1990 Sep;45(3):181-6.
    PMID: 2152078
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/epidemiology*
  17. Tan CC
    Scand J Work Environ Health, 1991 Aug;17(4):221-30.
    PMID: 1925433
    Nurses are an integral component of the health care delivery system. In discharging their duties, nurses encounter a variety of occupational health problems which may be categorized into biological hazards, chemical hazards, physical hazards, and psychosocial hazards. A review of some examples of each of these four types of hazards is presented in this article. Particular attention has been devoted to hepatitis B, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, tuberculosis, cytotoxic drugs, anesthetic agents, needlestick injury, back pain, and stress.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  18. Mak JW, Khalid BA
    Med J Malaysia, 1992 Dec;47(4):235-7.
    PMID: 1303475
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases/diagnosis
  19. Suleiman AB, Lye MS, Mathews A, Ravindran J
    Med J Malaysia, 1995 May;50 Suppl A:S3-10.
    PMID: 10968005
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
  20. Tengku Ariff, R.H., Mohd Nazi, M.Z., Mohd Rizam, M.Z., Mohd Shahriman, M.S., Zakaria, Y., Kamal Nazmir, K., et al.
    MyJurnal
    This study was conducted to determine the health status of aboriginal ("Orang Asli') children aged 0-12 years in Post Brooke, Gua Musang, Kelantan. This is done by appraising the environmental status, patterns of illnesses including communicable diseases and usage of health resources. Six villages were selected randomly from 12 villages in the area; 179 families were interviewed, 200 under-12-year-olds were examined and their blood samples taken for haemoglobin (HB) estimation as well as malarial screening. Water supply through Gravity Feed System (GFS) was used by 134 families (70.2%) whilst the rest obtained water direct from the river for the purpose. Only 63.6% of families boiled their drinking water 56.4% families threw rubbish indiscriminately, while 82.1% used the river as their toilets. Eighty-seven percent of the families saw the village medicine man first when ill. Forty (22.2%) children had had serious illnesses including malaria and 24 were admitted to hospitals. 15% of the children had never been immunized. A total of 102 (51%) children were pale and 90 (45%) had brown hair. Eighty nine (44.5%) of the children were anaemic (Hb < 10 gm/di). Sixty-nine children (34%) had dental caries. Forty-two (21%) had distended abdomen and 37 (18.5%) had hepatomegaly. Out of 84 stool samples examined, 67 (79.8%) had helminthic ova. Of all families, 47.1% gave a past history of at least one baby among their children who had died due to one reason or another. The health status of this community (especially children) was low that it warrants special attention.
    Matched MeSH terms: Communicable Diseases
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