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  1. Fulltext Behaviour Change in Public Health: Evidence and Implications
    Pokhrel S, Anokye NK, Reidpath DD, Allotey P
    Biomed Res Int, 2015;2015:598672.
    PMID: 26380284 DOI: 10.1155/2015/598672
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  2. Issues in public health: assuaging concern from contaminated land resulting from land use dynamics in Malaysia
    Singh H
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2001;13(2):122-7.
    PMID: 12597510
    The anthropogenic disturbance of pristine natural areas caused by land use and transformation from one use to another as a result of increased pressure from demographic changes and the economics of this shrinking resource can result in adverse health hazards for the community. This paper appraises the consequential impact of land use dynamics, its assessment and measures required to assuage this overlooked public health issue. The anthropogenic impact from land use in Malaysia from the industrial sector alone points toward the potential capacity to cause adverse health hazards. A deficiency in assessing this impact due to limited information has resulted in the inability to establish the extent of this problem. Several necessary measures to establish the extent of the problem involving ways to characterise contaminated land and the evolution of a strategy to resolve it are discussed.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  3. Sociology & social medicine
    YEANG CH
    Med J Malaya, 1960 Jun;14:250-1.
    PMID: 13787286
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  4. Health plans in Malaya
    FIELD JW
    J Indian Med Assoc, 1957 Oct 1;29(7):300-1.
    PMID: 13475863
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  5. [Public health services in Malaysia and Thailand. 2]
    Toyokawa H
    Hokenfu Zasshi, 1974;30(6):415-9.
    PMID: 4498075
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health Administration*
  6. Short outline of growth of public health in Kuala Lumpur and Malaya
    WYLDE EM
    Med J Malaya, 1959 Jun;13:316-21.
    PMID: 13846272
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  7. The medical natural history of Malayan aborigines
    POLUNIN I
    Med J Malaya, 1953 Dec;8(2):114A-74; concl.
    PMID: 13164686
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  8. Fulltext Development of a web-geographical information system application for plotting tuberculosis cases
    Mohidem NA, Osman M, Muharam FM, Mohd Elias S, Shaharudin R, Hashim Z
    Geospat Health, 2021 Oct 19;16(2).
    PMID: 34672178 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2021.980
    In the last few decades, public health surveillance has increasingly applied statistical methods to analyze the spatial disease distributions. Nevertheless, contact tracing and follow up control measures for tuberculosis (TB) patients remain challenging because public health officers often lack the programming skills needed to utilize the software appropriately. This study aimed to develop a more user-friendly application by applying the CodeIgniter framework for server development, ArcGIS JavaScript for data display and a web application based on JavaScript and Hypertext Preprocessor to build the server's interface, while a webGIS technology was used for mapping. The performance of this approach was tested based on 3325 TB cases and their sociodemographic data, such as age, gender, race, nationality, country of origin, educational level, employment status, health care worker status, income status, residency status, and smoking status between 1st January 2013 and 31st December 2017 in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. These data were collected from the Gombak District Health Office and Rawang Health Clinic. Latitude and longitude of the location for each case was geocoded by uploading spatial data using Google Earth and the main output was an interactive map displaying location of each case. Filters are available for the selection of the various sociodemographic factors of interest. The application developed should assist public health experts to utilize spatial data for the surveillance purposes comprehensively as well as for the drafting of regulations aimed at to reducing mortality and morbidity and thus minimizing the public health impact of the disease.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health; Public Health Surveillance
  9. Hearing health information in Malaysian public schools: a step towards addressing a public health concern
    Zakaria NA, Maamor N, Abdul Wahat NH
    Int J Audiol, 2021 12;60(12):1009-1015.
    PMID: 33752568 DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1896791
    OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine hearing-related information in public school textbooks in Malaysia to gain insight into the country's hearing health education.

    DESIGN: Qualitative content analysis on all textbooks used in Malaysian public schools in the year 2019 were conducted to identify the content and structure of information delivery through 11 years of formal education. Information related to hearing health was extracted and categorised according to the themes that emerged. Further analysis was done to characterise the usefulness of the information in promoting active hearing care based on the type of information delivered.

    STUDY SAMPLE: A total of 148 elementary and secondary school textbooks were reviewed.

    RESULTS: Fourteen textbooks (4 elementary and 10 secondary levels) were found to have relevant hearing health information covering topics of sound, ear and hearing, noise and hearing loss. The contents were mostly theoretical and lacked information about noise-induced hearing loss and proper hearing care.

    CONCLUSION: Minimal hearing health information was present in the Malaysian school curriculum. The content was inadequate for teaching students about hearing loss prevention. Areas of improvement and research are recommended to improve school-based hearing health education in Malaysia.

    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  10. The need for metrics to measure progress on racial equity in global public health and medicine
    Khan MS, Guinto RR, Boro E, Rahman-Shepherd A, Erondu NA
    Lancet, 2022 Dec 10;400(10368):2019-2021.
    PMID: 36502829 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02464-3
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  11. Fulltext Medical Experts' Agreement on Risk Assessment Based on All Possible Combinations of the COVID-19 Predictors-A Novel Approach for Public Health Screening and Surveillance
    Ibrahim MS, Naing NN, Abd Aziz A, Makhtar M, Mohamed Yusoff H, Esa NK, et al.
    Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Dec 10;19(24).
    PMID: 36554487 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192416601
    During the initial phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there was a critical need to create a valid and reliable screening and surveillance for university staff and students. Consequently, 11 medical experts participated in this cross-sectional study to judge three risk categories of either low, medium, or high, for all 1536 possible combinations of 11 key COVID-19 predictors. The independent experts' judgement on each combination was recorded via a novel dashboard-based rating method which presented combinations of these predictors in a dynamic display within Microsoft Excel. The validated instrument also incorporated an innovative algorithm-derived deduction for efficient rating tasks. The results of the study revealed an ordinal-weighted agreement coefficient of 0.81 (0.79 to 0.82, p-value < 0.001) that reached a substantial class of inferential benchmarking. Meanwhile, on average, the novel algorithm eliminated 76.0% of rating tasks by deducing risk categories based on experts' ratings for prior combinations. As a result, this study reported a valid, complete, practical, and efficient method for COVID-19 health screening via a reliable combinatorial-based experts' judgement. The new method to risk assessment may also prove applicable for wider fields of practice whenever a high-stakes decision-making relies on experts' agreement on combinations of important criteria.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  12. Fulltext What is a justice-oriented approach to global health?
    Khosla R, Venkatapuram S
    BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Mar;8(3).
    PMID: 36948533 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012155
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  13. Healthcare resources, organisational support and practice in asthma in six public health clinics in Malaysia
    Hussein N, Ramli R, Liew SM, Hanafi NS, Lee PY, Cheong AT, et al.
    NPJ Prim Care Respir Med, 2023 Mar 27;33(1):13.
    PMID: 36973274 DOI: 10.1038/s41533-023-00337-8
    Asthma, a common chronic respiratory illness is mostly managed in primary care. We aimed to determine healthcare resources, organisational support, and doctors' practice in managing asthma in a Malaysian primary care setting. A total of six public health clinics participated. We found four clinics had dedicated asthma services. There was only one clinic which had a tracing defaulter system. Long-term controller medications were available in all clinics, but not adequately provided. Resources, educational materials, and equipment for asthma management were present, though restricted in number and not placed in main locations of the clinic. To diagnose asthma, most doctors used clinical judgement and peak flow metre measurements with reversibility test. Although spirometry is recommended to diagnose asthma, it was less practiced, being inaccessible and unskilled in using as the main reasons. Most doctors reported providing asthma self-management; asthma action plan, but for only half of the patients that they encountered. In conclusion, there is still room for improvement in the provision of clinic resources and support for asthma care. Utilising peak flow metre measurement and reversibility test suggest practical alternative in low resource for spirometry. Reinforcing education on asthma action plan is vital to ensure optimal asthma care.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  14. Fulltext Benefit Modeling and Analysis of Wind Power Generation under Social Energy Economy and Public Health
    Liu Y, Abdul Karim Z, Khalid N, Said FF
    J Environ Public Health, 2022;2022:5635853.
    PMID: 35719856 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5635853
    Wind is a renewable energy source. Overall, using wind to produce energy has fewer effects on the environment than many other energy sources. Wind and solar energy provide public health and environmental benefits to the social. Wind turbines may also reduce the amount of electricity generation from fossil fuels, which results in lower total air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. In order to better optimize the effect of social energy economic management and facilitate the multiobjective decision making of coordinated development of energy and socioeconomic environment, a modeling and analysis method of economic benefits of wind power generation based on deep learning is proposed. In this paper, based on the principle of deep learning, the evaluation indicators of wind power economic benefits are excavated, a scientific and reasonable economic benefit evaluation system is constructed, a wind power economic benefit analysis model supported by public management is constructed, and the steps of wind power economic benefit analysis are simplified. It is concluded that the modeling and analysis method of wind power economic benefits based on deep learning has high practicability in the actual application process, which is convenient for the prediction and analysis of energy demand for social and economic development.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  15. Fractional view analysis of sexual transmitted human papilloma virus infection for public health
    Bahi MC, Bahramand S, Jan R, Boulaaras S, Ahmad H, Guefaifia R
    Sci Rep, 2024 Feb 06;14(1):3048.
    PMID: 38321259 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53696-8
    The infection of human papilloma virus (HPV) poses a global public health challenge, particularly in regions with limited access to health care and preventive measures, contributing to health disparities and increased disease burden. In this research work, we present a new model to explore the transmission dynamics of HPV infection, incorporating the impact of vaccination through the Atangana-Baleanu derivative. We establish the positivity and uniqueness of the solution for the proposed model HPV infection. The threshold parameter is determined through the next-generation matrix method, symbolized by [Formula: see text]. Moreover, we investigate the local asymptotic stability of the infection-free steady-state of the system. The existence of the solutions of the recommended model is determined through fixed-point theory. A numerical scheme is presented to visualize the dynamical behavior of the system with variation of input factors. We have shown the impact of input parameters on the dynamics of the system through numerical simulations. The findings of our investigation delineated the principal parameters exerting significant influence for the control and prevention of HPV infection.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  16. Fulltext Facilitators and barriers to engaging communities in health service research on dengue control in Indo-Pacific region: a systematic review
    Naing C, Htet NH, Tung WS, Aung HH, Whittaker MA
    BMC Public Health, 2023 Oct 05;23(1):1924.
    PMID: 37798703 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16845-8
    BACKGROUND: Dengue is a public health problem in the Indo-Pacific countries. There are concerns over the facilitators and barriers to community engagement in health service research aimed at dengue control. The objective of his study was to identify and synthesize facilitators and barriers to community engagement in health service research aimed at dengue control.

    METHODOLOGY: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) checklist was used to perform this review. Health-related databases including PubMed, Ovid, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant studies. A consolidated framework with five domains was developed after undertaking a six-phase reflective thematic assessment of the data.

    RESULTS: Thirteen studies were identified, spanning eight low-and middle-income countries of the Indo-Pacific region including Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. The studies in this review covered the period from 2002 to 2021. A broad range of study designs and objectives were revealed across these 13 studies. An array of communities such as the local government, project-related health staff, local health services staff, community leaders, local communities/residences/general public, heads of households, community health volunteers, school teachers, and schoolchildren participated in these dengue related studies. The five Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) domains of 'intervention characteristics', 'inner setting', 'outer setting',' individual characteristics', and 'program implementations' were used to identify and describe barriers and facilitators.

    CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate a range of barriers and facilitators to community engagement in dengue control in the selected LMIC in the Indo-Pacific countries. Future health services research on dengue control approaches should be carefully planned, methodologically constructed, aligned with community engagement principles, and involve considerable community participation at all stages of the research.

    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
  17. Fulltext Mathematical epidemiologic and simulation modelling of first wave COVID-19 in Malaysia
    Ariffin MRK, Gopal K, Krishnarajah I, Che Ilias IS, Adam MB, Arasan J, et al.
    Sci Rep, 2021 Oct 20;11(1):20739.
    PMID: 34671103 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99541-0
    Since the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak appeared in Wuhan, mainland China on December 31, 2019, the geographical spread of the epidemic was swift. Malaysia is one of the countries that were hit substantially by the outbreak, particularly in the second wave. This study aims to simulate the infectious trend and trajectory of COVID-19 to understand the severity of the disease and determine the approximate number of days required for the trend to decline. The number of confirmed positive infectious cases [as reported by Ministry of Health, Malaysia (MOH)] were used from January 25, 2020 to March 31, 2020. This study simulated the infectious count for the same duration to assess the predictive capability of the Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model. The same model was used to project the simulation trajectory of confirmed positive infectious cases for 80 days from the beginning of the outbreak and extended the trajectory for another 30 days to obtain an overall picture of the severity of the disease in Malaysia. The transmission rate, β also been utilized to predict the cumulative number of infectious individuals. Using the SIR model, the simulated infectious cases count obtained was not far from the actual count. The simulated trend was able to mimic the actual count and capture the actual spikes approximately. The infectious trajectory simulation for 80 days and the extended trajectory for 110 days depicts that the inclining trend has peaked and ended and will decline towards late April 2020. Furthermore, the predicted cumulative number of infectious individuals tallies with the preparations undertaken by the MOH. The simulation indicates the severity of COVID-19 disease in Malaysia, suggesting a peak of infectiousness in mid-March 2020 and a probable decline in late April 2020. Overall, the study findings indicate that outbreak control measures such as the Movement Control Order (MCO), social distancing and increased hygienic awareness is needed to control the transmission of the outbreak in Malaysia.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health; Public Health Informatics/methods*
  18. Fulltext Effective Communication at Different Phases of COVID-19 Prevention: Roles, Enablers and Barriers
    Mohd Hanafiah K, Ng C, Wan AM
    Viruses, 2021 Jun 03;13(6).
    PMID: 34204909 DOI: 10.3390/v13061058
    In an age of globalisation and hyperconnectivity, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented and sustained impact worldwide. This article discusses issues related to (science) communication at different phases of the COVID-19 epidemic timeline. We consider the role of communication for prevention from the ecological perspective, taking into consideration that many emerging pathogens, including COVID-19, likely arise in part due to anthropogenic changes to natural environments. Communication forms part of the early response setting the scene for public buy-in of public health interventions at the start of an outbreak, as well as to maintain precautions over time. Finally, communication is a key element in increasing acceptance for new tools that require mass uptake to be effective, as seen with roll-out challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines, which faced heightened concerns of efficacy and safety while mired with rampant misinformation. Ultimately, strategies for prevention of viral epidemics such as COVID-19 must include communication strategies at the forefront to reduce the risk of the emergence of new diseases and enhance efforts to control their spread and burden. Despite key themes emerging, what constitutes effective communication strategies for different people and contexts needs to be investigated further.
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health/education; Public Health/methods*
  19. Nutrition in the 21st century: riding the U-shaped wave
    Binns C, Low WY
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2014 Sep;26(5):444-6.
    PMID: 25143450 DOI: 10.1177/1010539514546797
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health/trends*
  20. The Bard's birthday, immunization, and public health
    Binns C, Low WY
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2014 Jul;26(4):336-8.
    PMID: 24947830 DOI: 10.1177/1010539514539795
    Matched MeSH terms: Public Health*
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