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"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…

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"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…

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"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…

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

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Penyakit ini telah membawa maut kepada empat juta kanak-kanak dan merupakan pembunuh kanak-kanak yang utama dalam dunia hari ini.

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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…

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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.

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

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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…

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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