Anthropometric characteristics and undernutrition among older persons in a rural area of northern India.

abstract：:Given the magnitude of drug addiction in Malaysia, the government has given top priority to this issue. It is timely that an assessment of knowledge, attitudes and perceptions related to drug abuse and drug dependents among the general public be carried out. Thus, a nationwide survey was undertaken. A representative s...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Low WY,Zulkifil SN,Yusof K,Batumalai S,Aye KW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malnutrition continues to affect a large proportion of children in the developing world. The authors undertook this study to identify biologic, socioeconomic, and health care factors associated with underweight and stunting in young children in an the eastern Tarai (plains) district of Nepal. Data were collected via q...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Pramod Singh GC,Nair M,Grubesic RB,Connell FA

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The purpose of this study is to compare the difference in health status between South Koreans and North Koreans and to identify factors responsible for the remarkable improvements in the health status of South Koreans. In order to examine the causes of the difference in health level, the health indices and their deter...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kim HJ,Ahn YS,Lee SG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been dramatic advancement in health status in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) over the past 50 years. This ever-changing paradigm of public health calls for continuous review and quality improvement of public health education (PHE). Since its founding in 1984, the mission of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortiu...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Karunathilake IM,Liyanage CK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the practicability and value of mapping cancers in Hong Kong, selected data from consecutive censuses were used to assess the demographic stability and socioeconomic characteristics of the 27 districts. Mortality data in two quinquennia (1979-1988) were used to calculate the districts' standardized mortalit...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Lloyd OL,Wong SL,Yu TS,Wong TW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study assessed the present degree of inequity in health care utilization as well as the contributions of the main determinants in the context of expending health insurance coverage in China. Data were obtained from the 2008 National Health Services Survey (NHSS) in China. A concentration index was used to quantify...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Zhang X,Wu Q,Shao Y,Fu W,Liu G,Coyte PC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of community capacity on health was evaluated by assessing the community via a questionnaire that included a capacity index in the social capital scale. The impact of the length of residence and the size and solidarity of networking on community capacity was also explored. The authors used logistic regressi...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Jung M,Rhee HS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaysia has an abortion law, which permits termination of pregnancy to save a woman's life and to preserve her physical and mental health (Penal Code Section 312, amended in 1989). However, lack of clear interpretation and understanding of the law results in women facing difficulties in accessing abortion information...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Low WY,Tong WT,Wong YL,Jegasothy R,Choong SP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to determine whether Norplant would be an acceptable contraceptive method for Cambodian women, given its technology and the socio-cultural context, and whether it can be delivered by a private sector clinic with good quality care. This is a prospective cohort study of the first 966 acc...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： van der Velden T,Ping C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study involved an age-period-cohort analysis of the consultation rate and prevalence of dyslipidemia in Japan, based on Patient Survey data from 1999 to 2017 and open data of national database of health insurance claims and specific health checkups in Japan from 2013 to 2016. Our results showed that the consultat...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Okui T

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is done to develop an age and sex-specific BMI standard for Japanese children, and to determine the age and sex specific cut off points for overweight and obesity. A population-based analysis of BMI data from a national survey conducted in the year 2000; 14,113 preschool children, 72,380 children attending ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kato N,Sato K,Takimoto H,Sudo N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

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：:As public health by its very nature is multi-disciplinary, it may benefit individual programs to formulate a regional network, joining researchers and academics across programs. This approach may afford extended benefits, such as the establishment of regional health surveillance systems and collaborative funding initi...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Loos GP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its foundation 30 years ago, the mission of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health has been promoting "health for all" through public health. "Health for all" became the theme of Walter Patrick's public health career and inspired his contribution to APACPH. However, the universality of health car...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Binns C,Lee MK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity or clonality among Vibrio cholerae O1, O139 and non-O1/ non-O139 of clinical and environmental origin using ribotyping and PFGE was performed in order to ascertain the public health implications of the different genotypes circulating within the Malaysian environment. Using an in-house typing sche...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Iyer L,Vadivelu J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globalisation is present whether recognised in SARS, global terrorism, finance or youth music. With the growth of the health promoting school movement in this context and the increased numbers of countries and schools involved, eight themes are proposed as critical to how the Health Promotion School move forward. They...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Parsons C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to uncover the challenges faced by village doctors in providing basic public health services (BPHS) in western rural areas of China. This field research for BPHS, with 12 managers and 82 village doctors of county Y in Guizhou province, was conducted in July 2012 using a combination of random ...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Zhang Y,Chen M,Shi XQ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for a pro-active role for universities in the Third World in health development is identified as one of the important frontiers of international health. The questions of how to combine scientific objectivity with involvement in social problems are examined, using the experience of the Aga Khan University in K...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Bryant JH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workplace stress (WS) has been found to affect job satisfaction (JS), performance, and turnover intentions (TIs) in developed countries, but there is little evidence from other countries and especially rural areas. In rural Taiwan, especially, there is an insufficient health care workforce, and the situation is gettin...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Chao MC,Jou RC,Liao CC,Kuo CW

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the secular trend of decreasing prevalence of smoking and consumption of tobacco in most industrialized countries, the prevalence of smoking in Japan continues to be one of the highest. Based on the alternative measure of population attributable fractions, the present study gives an estimate of the number of d...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Shibuya K

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:It is an important public health problem to identify risk factors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among the elderly. We recruited subjects from Ansan, Korea, as a subset of the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES), which is an ongoing population study, and followed up their sleep quality for 6 years....

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kwon AM,Shin C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents results of research undertaken to identify factors that affect the vulnerability of rural Mongolian herders to climate change. Findings suggest that models of market development instituted since 1990 have failed to recognize and support key elements of the pastoralist adaptive strategy. A retreat...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Janes CR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Professor Walter Patrick entered the Colombo Medical Faculty in Sri Lanka in 1957 and completed MBBS in 1962. In 1975, Walter obtained his MPH from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was posted to the Health Education Bureau (HEB) in Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health where he was placed in charge of the Educatio...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Abeyagunawardene L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Young adults aged 18 to 32 years were randomly selected from a household probability sample participating in Project Accept in the remote areas of Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand in 2005. Among 2989 respondents, 44.4% had never heard of antiretroviral treatment (ART). Lack of awareness of ART was independentl...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Srithanaviboonchai K,Celentano DD,Visaruratana S,Kawichai S,Wichajarn M,Genberg B,Chariyalertsak C,Kulich M,Chariyalertsak S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitioning to tertiary education is a significant life course event that has the potential to influence lifelong eating patterns. This study used a theoretic model developed from a life course perspective to examine factors influencing the change of food choices among 31 young adults in Hong Kong after they moved o...

journal_title：Asia-Pacific journal of public health

authors： Kwok ST,Capra S,Leveritt M

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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