Molecular analysis of vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Malaysia: public health implications.

abstract：:The purposes of this study were to derive empirical types of social support networks in a sample of 1000 community-dwelling, older Koreans 65 years of age or older and examine which types of social support network are associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptom was assessed using the Korean...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kim YB,Lee SH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Korean National Health Insurance Service provided the Health Screening Cohort Database. To investigate the cumulative effect of statins on cancer development, we defined statin users as those who used statins during 2002 to 2003 at baseline. Statin users were divided into high and low users. Statin nonusers were d...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kim J,You NY,Lee JW,Kim Y,Kim YW,Kang HT

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tambon Korat and Koongyang in Northeastern Thailand, 88% (n = 60) of the mothers and significant other careproviders interviewed believe in poh, a mild, self-limiting diarrhea in infants which is considered a normal prerequisite in child development. The local definition of poh as to its nature, symptomatology and ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Baclig PV,Patrick WK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is based on plenary address given before the International Symposium on the Girl Child in Asia, a Neglected Majority. The author answers the question of how do the efforts in child survival relate to the real welfare of children. The statistics are grim. 40,000 children 5 years died today. 1 child die...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Shrestha MP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the association of market competition with hospital charges, length of stay, and quality outcomes. A total of 279,847 patients from 851 hospitals were analyzed. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index was used as a measure of hospital market competition level. Our results suggest that hospitals in less ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kim SJ,Park EC,Yoo KB,Kwon JA,Kim TH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to describe the food and nutrient intakes of adults in three Samoan church communities located in Auckland, New Zealand. The study had a cross-sectional design and measured usual dietary intake in 437 participants, aged 20 years and over, using a self-completed, 89-item quantitative foo...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Bell AC,Swinburn BA,Amosa H,Scragg R,Sharpe SJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to examine individual- and community-level factors that contribute to pregnancy-related health behaviors among Indonesian women. This study used representative nationwide survey samples from the Indonesian Demographic Health Survey in the years 2007 (N = 15 193), 2012 (N = 14 431), and 2017 (N = 1...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Hardhantyo M,Chuang YC

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 12,000 women in eight provinces of China was carried out in 1988. One urban and one rural area were selected purposely in each province; data on lifetime and recent pregnancies were collected from married women aged 20-44. Data on abortions included reasons, gestational age, and complications. During the f...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Wang Y,Becker S,Chow LP,Wang SX

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 85% of Mongolia's foreign trade and development aid, which formerly came from the USSR, have abruptly ceased causing shortfalls in almost all sectors. The UNICEF Mongolia Country Program and the East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (UNICEF/EAPRO) realized that Mongolian children are likely to suffer the most as ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kachondham Y,Dhanamitta S,Oyunbileg M,Brown L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDCs) in 2015, which included several goals and targets primarily related to nutrition: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. In the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Publ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Binns C,Lee MK,Low WY,Zerfas A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical inactivity is increasing in Australia and active forms of transportation may be one way to increase the working population's daily physical activity. We used travel-to-work data from employed persons aged 15 years and over participating in the 1996 (n = 7,636,319) and 2001 (n = 8,298,606) Australian censuses ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Bell AC,Garrard J,Swinburn BA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates associations between after-school tutoring and availability of electronic devices with overweight/obesity among fifth-grade children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A complex cross-sectional design was used to randomly select students and their parents in 8 public schools in Ho Chi Minh City in 2...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： To QG,Do DV,To KG,Gallegos D

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency disorders together constitute a major public health concern in Bangladesh. Among many vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases, iron-deficiency anemia remains the most persistent and has been shown to contribute to high maternal and child morbidity and mortality in the countr...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Ghose B,Yaya S,Tang S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of universal body mass index (BMI) cutoffs do not take into account variation in the association between BMI and health risk across diverse ethnic groups. We used the New Zealand Health Survey data collected between 2002/2003 and 2014/2015 to calculate the predictive marginal means of hypertension, cardiovascu...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Halim AA,Basu A,Kirk R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the critical role of medical missions as alternative or proxy health delivery agencies in developing countries like the Philippines. Why and how they exist, what they can and cannot do, how they interact with the for-profit and public health sectors, and what challenges they face in the context o...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Mendoza RL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the 2009-2010 death rates, causes, and patterns of mortality in rural Cambodia, we conducted active, population-based death surveillance in 25 rural villages of Cambodia from March 2009 to August 2010. Among the population of 28,053 under surveillance, 280 deaths were reported and explored by physician-cer...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Goyet S,Rammaert B,McCarron M,Khieu V,Fournier I,Kitsutani P,Ly S,Mounts A,Letson WG,Buchy P,Vong S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia the most important preventable causes of cancer, in order of importance, are tobacco smoking, diet, obesity, sunlight exposure, alcohol consumption and occupational exposure to carcinogens. We review and discuss these causes and their potential preventability and discuss three broad strategies in cancer p...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Owen N,Hiller J,Woodward A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glanders is a fatal bacterial infection of equids caused by Burkholderia mallei. The infection can be transmitted to humans through prolonged direct contact with glanderous equids. Recently, reemergence of equine glanders has been reported in many countries. To investigate zoonotic transmission of B mallei infection, ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Singha H,Shanmugasundaram K,Saini S,Tripathi BN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector surveillance is a cornerstone of dengue management yet there is a diversity of surveillance programs evident internationally. Such diversity is described in this review to enable a broader assessment of dengue vector surveillance methods. This review describes the diversity of surveillance programs for dengue v...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Azil AH,Li M,Williams CR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To effectively facilitate health information sharing and personal information protection in online health communities (OHCs), it is important to examine the factors influencing people's personal information disclosure behavior in OHCs. Five factors were supposed as the predictors of people's personal information discl...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Zhou J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report sheds new light on the development of a community health fund through the implementation of a community essential drug project, and its impact on the improvement of primary health care at the community level. The experience of community drug funds in Vietnam, supported by a strong government commitment, in...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Umenai T,Hamada A,Takeuchi M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Asia-Pacific countries, both environmental modernization and hereditary traits of Mongoloid reported to cause rapid increase in lifestyle-related diseases (LRD). However, reproducibility of reported responsive-factors is low. To examine this, a decision-tree method of complexity-model was applied to select LRD-resp...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Yanagisawa Y,Munkhtulga L,Nakayama K,Iwamoto S,Charupoonphol P,Supannnatas S,Kuartei S,Chimedregzen U,Kawabata T,Kaneko Y,Watanabe S,Sakuma M,Komatsu F,Hasegawa K,Kagawa Y

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to conduct an incremental cost-effectiveness analysis from the payer's perspective in Singapore of 3 gestational diabetes mellitus screening strategies: universal, targeted, or no screening. A decision tree model assessed the primary outcome: incremental cost per quality-adjusted life y...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Chen PY,Finkelstein EA,Ng MJ,Yap F,Yeo GS,Rajadurai VS,Chong YS,Gluckman PD,Saw SM,Kwek KY,Tan KH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the association between mothers' work-related factors and breastfeeding practices in Bangkok, Thailand. Data were collected from 84 working mothers with a child aged 6 to 24 months who visited the breastfeeding mobile clinic at a nursery goods exhibition. Thai interviewers collected data using a st...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Aikawa T,Pavadhgul P,Chongsuwat R,Sawasdivorn S,Boonshuyar C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of epidemiological data has demonstrated that diet quality follows a sociodemographic gradient. Little is known, however, about food group intake patterns among Malaysian children. This study aimed to assess consumption pattern of 7 food groups, including cereals/grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, fish,...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Koo HC,Poh BK,Lee ST,Chong KH,Bragt MC,Abd Talib R,SEANUTS Malaysia Study Group.

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between intention of undergoing cancer screening and information, motivation, and behavioral skills using an information-motivation-behavioral skills model. The authors performed a telephone survey of a random sample of 2030 residents aged 30 to 69 years from 6 counties of Gang...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kim BK,Jo HS,Lee HJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic carriers of Salmonella Typhi act as reservoirs for the organism and become the agents of typhoid outbreaks in a community. In this study, chronic carriers in Kelantan, Malaysia were first identified using the culture and polymerase chain reaction method. Then, a novel serological tool, designated Typhidot-C, w...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Chua AL,Aziah I,Balaram P,Bhuvanendran S,Anthony AA,Mohmad SN,Nasir NM,Hassan H,Naim R,Meran LP,Hussin HM,Ismail A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Vietnam, pigs and poultry are predominantly produced by small-scale farmers, creating challenges for zoonotic disease management. The objective of this study was to characterize practices related to livestock and manure management and to measure association with 3 self-reported health symptoms (coughing, fever, and...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Dang-Xuan S,MacDonald LE,Schurer JM,Nguyen-Viet H,Pham-Duc P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the widespread availability of packaged cigarettes, the inhabitants of island nations of the Southwest Pacific frequently smoke commercially available loose tobacco using manufactured rolling papers, as well as locally grown tobacco rolled in manufactured rolling paper or wrapped in leaves, copybook pap...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Weitz CA,Olszowy KM,Dancause KN,Sun C,Pomer A,Silverman H,Lee G,Tarivonda L,Chan CW,Kaneko A,Lum JK,Garruto RM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the urban-rural variations in the prevalence of overweight, hypertension, undiagnosed hypertension, and untreated hypertension among adults. The China Health and Nutrition Survey was used to study adults 25 to 65 years old. Logistic regression was used to obtain the odds rati...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Xiaohui Hou

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00