Author: "Bulgiba, Awang" / Subject: children

Author:: Bulgiba, Awang, et al. ; Ramakreshnan, Logaraj; Aghamohammadi, Nasrin; Fong, ChngSaun; Zaki, RafdzahAhmad; Wong, LiPing; Sulaiman, NikMeriam; Show all 7 Authors
Source:: Environmental science and pollution research international 2018 v.25 no.3 pp. 2096-2111
ISSN:: 0944-1344
Subject:: asthma; children; databases; elderly; emissions; epidemiological studies; human physiology; laboratory experimentation; mental health; models; morbidity; mortality; neoplasms; planning; pollutants; risk; systematic review; throat; time series analysis; toxicity; South East Asia
Abstract:: ... Seasonal haze episodes and the associated inimical health impacts have become a regular crisis among the ASEAN countries. Even though many emerging experimental and epidemiological studies have documented the plausible health effects of the predominating toxic pollutants of haze, the consistency among the reported findings by these studies is poorly understood. By addressing such gap, this review ...
DOI:: 10.1007/s11356-017-0860-y
: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0860-y

Author:: Bulgiba, Awang M., et al. ; Khambalia, Amina Z.; Lim, Siew S.; Gill, Tim; Show all 4 Authors
ISSN:: 0379-5721
Subject:: children; cohort studies; developing countries; ethnic differences; females; indigenous peoples; males; malnutrition; monitoring; morbidity; nutritional status; obesity; rural areas; sociodemographic characteristics; underweight; urban population; urbanization; Malaysia
Abstract:: ... For many developing countries undergoing rapid economic growth and urbanization, trends in nutritional status indicate a decrease in malnutrition with an associated rise in the prevalence of obesity. An understanding of the situation among children in Malaysia is lacking. To examine the prevalence, trends and sociodemographic factors described for underweight and overweight children in Malaysia. T ...
DOI:: 10.1177/156482651203300103
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/156482651203300103

Author:: Bulgiba, Awang, et al. ; Nasr, Nabil A; Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M; Ahmed, Abdulhamid; Roslan, Muhammad Aidil; Show all 5 Authors
Source:: Parasites & vectors 2013 v.6 no.1 pp. 28
ISSN:: 1756-3305
Subject:: children; cross-sectional studies; defecation; education programs; educational status; employment; family size; gender; hands; health education; helminthiasis; helminths; households; income; ingestion; questionnaires; regression analysis; villages; washing; Malaysia
Abstract:: ... BACKGROUND: In the first part of this study, we investigated the prevalence and associated key factors of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections among Orang Asli children in rural Malaysia; an alarming high prevalence and five key factors significantly associated with infections were reported. Part 2 of this study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) on STH infections a ...
DOI:: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-28
PubMed:: 23356968
PubMed Central:: PMC3571980
: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-28

Author:: Bulgiba, Awang, et al. ; Nasr, Nabil A; Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M; Ahmed, Abdulhamid; Roslan, Muhammad Aidil; Show all 5 Authors
Source:: Parasites & vectors 2013 v.6 no.1 pp. 27
ISSN:: 1756-3305
Subject:: ascariasis; children; control methods; cross-sectional studies; defecation; drinking water; family size; feces; females; hand washing; health education; hookworms; households; hygiene; indigenous peoples; ingestion; males; quality of life; questionnaires; regression analysis; sanitation; trichuriasis; villages; washing; water supply; Malaysia
Abstract:: ... BACKGROUND: Despite the continuous efforts to improve the quality of life of Orang Asli (Aborigines) communities, these communities are still plagued with a wide range of health problems including parasitic infections. The first part of this study aimed at determining the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections and identifying their associated factors among rural Orang Asli childr ...
DOI:: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-27
PubMed:: 23356952
PubMed Central:: PMC3564908
: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-27

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