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• Texthealthorang asli

  Life expectancy at birth is...

  "Life expectancy at birth is lower for Orang Asli females than for males and also lower than that for either sex in the West Malaysian population as a whole. In 1985 the life expectancy for Orang Asli females was 52 years, versus 54 years for males (Ng et al., 1992)."
• Texthealthkemudahan...1 more

  Veeman (1986/97) also acknowledged...

  "Veeman (1986/97) also acknowledged that medical posts did exist in some remote areas, "flying doctors" did provide curative services, malaria teams did go out to villages at times, and field trips were made from Gombak Hospital to accessible sites for outpatient services, immunizations, health education, and maternal and child care."
• Texthealthorang asli...1 more

  The earliest reports on the health...

  "The earliest reports on the health of Orang Asli women appeared after 1945. By the 1960s maternal health care was a thriving part of the Gombak Hospital scene and problems such as maternal anemia, undernutrition, and associated perinatal death were obvious. By the 1990s critical problems in Orang Asli women's health had been well documented. Apparently few of these problems have been effectively addressed by the health-care system, according to many reports."
• Texthealthillness...1 more

  Apa itu 'strok'?

  Strok adalah penyakit golongan tua dan kerap terjadi pada mereka yang berumur 50 tahun ke atas.
• Texthealth

  Derita kanak-kanak

  Penyakit ini telah membawa maut kepada empat juta kanak-kanak dan merupakan pembunuh kanak-kanak yang utama dalam dunia hari ini.
• blood donationcommunity development...1 more

  RM900,000 for blood donation unit

• Texthealthidentity...1 more

  Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in North India

  Shows how a discourse about sex, semen, and health is conceived of in terms of embodied truth through an examination of the popular Hindi literature on brahmacharya, interpreted within the context of therapeutic celibacy as put in practice by a modern yoga society.
• Textgenderhealth

  Hospital trash: Cleaners speak of their role in disease prevention

  The fact that cleaning, especially cleaning performed by women, is invisible to managers, other hospital personnel, and patients has important consequences for cleaners' and for patients' health.
• Texthealthtuberculosis

  Health culture and the clinical encounter: Vietnamese refugees' responses to preventive drug treatment of inactive tuberculosis

  The health culture elements that influence compliance and noncompliance by Vietnamese American clients with courses of preventive drug therapy for inactive TB.
• Texthealthmetaphor

  Biomedicine on the spatial periphery: The (re)production of a metaphorical landscape by rural health care practitioners in Northern California

  Examines the use of spatial concepts by rural health care practitioners in Northern California and suggests that rural and urban spatial metaphors are important means of expressing and (re)producing problems associated with their research for legitimacy and moral authority within a field of relations defined by biomedicine.
• Texthealinghealth...1 more

  Identity and healing in three Navajo religious traditions: sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó

  Elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions.
• Texthealthtobacco...1 more

  Going like gangbusters: Transnational tobacco companies "making a killing" in South America

  Suggests that the transnational tobacco companies' (TTCs) marketing strategies override cultural differences in the choices people make regarding smoking and health.
• Texthealthinequality

  African Independent Churches in Mozambique: Healing the afflictions of inequality

  Argues that growing inequality has led to declining social cohesion, heightened individual competition, fear of interpersonal violence, and intensified conflict between spouses in poor families.
• Texthealth

  Using home gardens to decipher health and healing in the Andes

  The natural history of home gardens mirrors transformations within the family, and that Saraguro women study the contents of their neighbors' gardens, using this knowledge as a foundation for deciphering the owner's economic and health status.
• Texthealth

  Toxin or medicine?: Explanatory models of radon in Montana health mines

  The use of radon therapy by Americans despite intensive public health education media campaigns.