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Karel SG, Robey B

Asian Pac Cens Forum, 1988 Sep;2(1-2):1-4, 18-30.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Advocacy and IEC strategies. Getting the most from the experience of others in promoting adolescent reproductive and sexual health

Adolesc Educ Newsl, 1999 Dec;2(2):2.

PMID: 12158254

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Challenge to clinical pharmacy practice in Malaysia

Hassan Y

Ann Pharmacother, 1993 Sep;27(9):1134-8.

PMID: 8219450 DOI: 10.1177/106002809302700920

OBJECTIVE: To report on the current status and future trends of clinical pharmacy practice in Malaysia.
DATA SOURCES: Published conference reports and journal articles.
DATA EXTRACTION: Data on areas related to clinical pharmacy practice in Malaysian hospitals were gleaned from various publications.
DATA SYNTHESIS: Malaysia is capable of implementing clinical pharmacy services in hospitals and perhaps also in the community setting. The important factors in clinically oriented pharmacy practice include improvement of the drug-control process, development of physical and human resources, clinical pharmacy skills, and the training of practicing pharmacists. A number of Malaysian pharmacists have already developed a unit-dose drug distribution system, patient counseling, therapeutic drug monitoring, drug information, and total parenteral nutrition services.
CONCLUSIONS: The pharmacy profession in Malaysia has many challenges ahead and it is hoped that every practicing pharmacist will be highly committed to future professional needs so that clinical pharmacy practice in Malaysia becomes a reality.

Matched MeSH terms: Drug Information Services/trends

Consultative meeting considers past successes and future programmes for subregional network

Asia Pac POPIN Bull, 1999 Sep-Dec;11(3):1-3.

PMID: 12349810

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Developing IEC prototypes for adolescents. IEC workshop

JOICFP News, 1997 Jan.

PMID: 12292051

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Development of a health information service using a videotex system

Dzulkifli AR, Aishah AL, Ch'ng HS, Rose A, Rahmat A, Isa AM, et al.

J Audiov Media Med, 1994 Jul;17(3):117-20.

PMID: 7636117

A number of health databases is now available in Malaysia, but few are accessible to the general public. However, recently a service was launched nationwide via a videotex system to also target the Malaysia public. This service is provided by the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in collaboration with several Malaysian Government ministries and agencies. Access to health information via videotex, be it medical, pharmaceutical or environmental is viewed as an effective means of on-line information dissemination. It provides not only rapid retrieval but is also economical and interactive, particularly suitable for a developing country.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services/organization & administration*

ESCAP/POPIN Working Group on Development of Population Information Centres and Network: report on the meeting held from 20 to 23 June 1984

United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ESCAP. Population Division, United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. International Population Information Network POPIN

POPIN Bull, 1984 Dec.

PMID: 12267292

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Effective IEC approaches for Asia. IEC evaluation workshop

JOICFP News, 1996 Feb.

PMID: 12290712

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Effectiveness of publications in family planning program

Noor Laily Abu Bakar, Tan BA, Tey NP, Yusuf Y

Malays J Reprod Health, 1983 Dec;1(2):109-19.

PMID: 12313333

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Four perspectives of women's health. Workshop participants talk about women's health issues in four countries. [Malaysia]

Kaur P

JOICFP News, 1994 Jan.

PMID: 12318571

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Handling of drug-related inquiries by hospital nurses

Ab Rahman AF, Budiarti LE

J Clin Pharm Ther, 1998 Apr;23(2):127-31.

PMID: 9786098

To determine how nurses handled drug-related questions in the work environment of a teaching hospital in Malaysia and the type of information sources they used.

Matched MeSH terms: Drug Information Services*

Fulltext Healthcare providers’ knowledge towards medication use in breastfeeding: an interventional study

Hamat, N.N., Yusof, N.N., Ramli, N.I., Zubir, N.Z., Wahairi, N., Jusoh, N., et al.

JUMMEC, 2019;22(2):39-42.

MyJurnal

Background: Most postpartum women are prescribed at least one medication; so the safety of the medication
is a major concern. In 2017, 11% of 815 questions received by the Pharmacy Drug Information Services at seven
clinics in Dungun is related to medication use in breastfeeding. Thus, this study was carried out to evaluate
the attitudes of healthcare providers (HCPs) and to investigate the effect of knowledge about medication use
in breastfeeding among HCPs; pre- and post-educational intervention.

Methods: An interventional study was carried out among medical officers, assistant medical officers,
pharmacists and pharmacist assistants from seven clinics in the district of Dungun, Malaysia. The questionnaires
were distributed during pre- and post-intervention period. The interventions in this study included continuous
medical education (CME) and the use of a booklet regarding medication use for breastfeeding women. The
data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Studies (SPSS) and presented as frequencies,
means, and standard deviations.

Results: Fifty HCPs were enrolled in this study and over 20% of them advised mothers to discontinue
breastfeeding whenever they are prescribed any medication. The knowledge of HCPs about medication use in
breastfeeding women was significantly improved (Z= -5.917, p

Matched MeSH terms: Drug Information Services

Highlights of session presentations. TSS / CST population IEC meeting

Popul Educ Asia Pac Newsl Forum, 1995.

PMID: 12288741

PIP: The great deal of documentation which was prepared for the recent TSS/CST Population IEC (information, education, and communication) meeting from research, field experiments, and action projects will be useful to TSS/CST advisors and individual countries undertaking IEC and population education work. This article summarizes the 12 sessions held during the open forum. To illustrate some of the latest trends in population and health communication, the "enter-educate" approach and use of the interactive computer software called SCOPE (Strategic Communication Planning and Evaluation) were discussed. Next, ways in which to apply research effectively in IEC and population education were considered. Examples were provided of 1) a workshop methodology used to help a multidisciplinary group design a problem-solving communication strategy in Malaysia and Dominica; 2) the counseling training evaluation technique based on the GATHER (greet, ask, tell, help, explain, and return for follow-up) model; and 3) four types of evaluation of population education in schools. The third session was concerned with the program approach used in IEC and population education. Session 4 dealt with the implication of UNFPA support to family planning (FP) IEC. Counseling skills training and interpersonal communication were next on the agenda, followed by a consideration of how knowledge and policies are applied in the area of youth. The seventh session concentrated on ways to involve men in FP and reproductive health and included a discussion of a case study on the attitude and behavior of men with regard to FP which had IEC implications. The next session described the need to reconceptualize population education and what such a reconceptualization would entail. Session 9 was devoted to a consideration of gender issues and the education of girls. The tenth session covered the use of participatory approaches and community involvement in population communication programs. Innovative methodologies for school-based population education were described next, and the last session was concerned with new information technologies such as navigating the Internet and using new software for establishing databases.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Fulltext Hybrid Symbiotic Organisms Search Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling of Tasks on Cloud Computing Environment

Abdullahi M, Ngadi MA

PLoS One, 2016;11(6):e0158229.

PMID: 27348127 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158229

Cloud computing has attracted significant attention from research community because of rapid migration rate of Information Technology services to its domain. Advances in virtualization technology has made cloud computing very popular as a result of easier deployment of application services. Tasks are submitted to cloud datacenters to be processed on pay as you go fashion. Task scheduling is one the significant research challenges in cloud computing environment. The current formulation of task scheduling problems has been shown to be NP-complete, hence finding the exact solution especially for large problem sizes is intractable. The heterogeneous and dynamic feature of cloud resources makes optimum task scheduling non-trivial. Therefore, efficient task scheduling algorithms are required for optimum resource utilization. Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) has been shown to perform competitively with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The aim of this study is to optimize task scheduling in cloud computing environment based on a proposed Simulated Annealing (SA) based SOS (SASOS) in order to improve the convergence rate and quality of solution of SOS. The SOS algorithm has a strong global exploration capability and uses fewer parameters. The systematic reasoning ability of SA is employed to find better solutions on local solution regions, hence, adding exploration ability to SOS. Also, a fitness function is proposed which takes into account the utilization level of virtual machines (VMs) which reduced makespan and degree of imbalance among VMs. CloudSim toolkit was used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method using both synthetic and standard workload. Results of simulation showed that hybrid SOS performs better than SOS in terms of convergence speed, response time, degree of imbalance, and makespan.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

Identification of patients' rights to benefit from consumer health information services: A Delphi study

Ashrafi-Rizi H, Shahrzadi L, Dehghani-Champiri Z

J Educ Health Promot, 2019;8:102.

PMID: 31143819 DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_18_19

INTRODUCTION: Patients have different rights, one of which is their right to access health information. The aim of this study was to identify patients' rights to benefit from consumer health information services using a qualitative method.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research method was qualitative using a Delphi technique. The statistical population consisted of 12 specialists in the field of medical library and information science and researchers and healthcare professionals. Eight dimensions and 42 items of patients' rights were identified and were approved by Delphi panel.

RESULTS: Regarding patients' rights to benefit from consumer health information services, eight dimensions including the right to health knowledge, the right to access to health information, the professional behavior of medical librarians with patients, content richness, information seeking skills, awareness of new services and products, the ease of using health information centers, and the professional behavior of healthcare professionals with patients were identified and approved.

CONCLUSION: Decreasing the gap between the health literacy of healthcare professionals and patients is one of the duties of medical librarians and health information professionals. Establishing of patient rights in the area of utilizing health information services is an important step in improving the quality of services received by patients.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

Information-Centric Network-Based Vehicular Communications: Overview and Research Opportunities

Din IU, Kim BS, Hassan S, Guizani M, Atiquzzaman M, Rodrigues JJPC

Sensors (Basel), 2018 Nov 15;18(11).

PMID: 30445723 DOI: 10.3390/s18113957

Information Centric Network (ICN) is expected to be the favorable deployable future Internet paradigm. ICN intends to replace the current IP-based model with the name-based content-centric model, as it aims at providing better security, scalability, and content distribution. However, it is a challenging task to conceive how ICN can be linked with the other most emerging paradigm, i.e., Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET). In this article, we present an overview of the ICN-based VANET approach in line with its contributions and research challenges.In addition, the connectivity issues of vehicular ICN model is presented with some other emerging paradigms, such as Software Defined Network (SDN), Cloud, and Edge computing. Moreover, some ICN-based VANET research opportunities, in terms of security, mobility, routing, naming, caching, and fifth generation (5G) communications, are also covered at the end of the paper.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

Interpersonal communication and the diffusion of family planning in West Malaysia

Palmore JA, Hirsch PM, Ariffin Bin Marzuki

Demography, 1971 Aug;8(3):411-25.

PMID: 4950540 DOI: 10.2307/2060629

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

Knowledge and attitudes of Malaysian private medical practitioners toward guidelines-based medicine

Lian PC, Marnoch G

J Manag Med, 1999;13(2-3):178-89.

PMID: 10747449

This paper describes a study of the knowledge and attitudes of a sample of private medical practitioners in Malaysia in relation to questions posed on guidelines-based medicine. The study was conducted through a postal questionnaire sent to a sample of 2,000 private practitioners. Placing the research in context, a description of Malaysia and its health-care system is provided. Issues surrounding guidelines-based medicine in the Malaysian context are discussed. An analysis of the sample population's personal and professional characteristics is presented. Key research findings include identifying a substantial knowledge deficit--less than half of the respondents claimed to understand "guidelines". A majority of doctors (64 per cent) think guidelines are useful. Only 29 per cent of respondents knew where to find guidelines, with 22 per cent claiming to have used guidelines. The paper concludes with a discussion of issues in the implementation of guidelines-based medicine in Malaysia based on the study's findings.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

Larger than life: billboard communication in Southeast Asia

Barnard B

UFSI Rep, 1983.

PMID: 12339664

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services*

Legal sanctions and information about drugs as influences upon the decision by adolescents whether to use illicit drugs

Spencer C, Navaratnam V

Drug Alcohol Depend, 1980 Nov;6(5):315-22.

PMID: 7460763

Although those Malaysian secondary schoolchildren who have never used drugs are consistent in their support for legal and social sanctions against drug use, it is argued that such sanctions are a relatively unimportant factor in the decision whether or not to use drugs. Non-drug users inhabit a social world separated from their drug-using contemporaries; they rely on information from public rather than direct social sources, and claim to have been little interested in information received. However, there is evidence that, for a minority of the drug-using sub-sample, public information campaigns have made them more rather than less interested in experimenting with drug substances.

Matched MeSH terms: Information Services

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