The key findings of the report was shared by Dr Arunah Chandran, a public health physician from Cardiovascular-Diabetes Prevention and Control Unit, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia during the webinar on Role of Nurses in Diabetes Care in conjunction with World Diabetes Day 2020 celebration recently. The National Diabetes Registry (NDR) was established…
Dr Feisul Mustapha delivered a short presentation titled ‘Burden of NCDs in Malaysia & making the economic argument’ during the webinar in conjunction with the launch of the publication of the document “The impact of noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors on Malaysia’s gross domestic product” with Deakin Health Economics, Institute of Health Transformation, Deakin…
Prof. Marj Moodie presented an overview of the publication ‘The impact of Non-communicable Diseases and their risk factors on Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product’, acknowledging the contribution by Dr Huong Ngoc Quynh Tran and Dr Jaithri Ananthapavan Please download the slide below
So, the cat’s out of the bag! One in two Malaysians are obese. A fifth have diabetes. A third have raised blood pressure (NHMS 2019). While the public health doctor in me would like to begin preaching statistics about how poorly Malaysians are doing and how we could do better as a country, the mother…
As a mother of three young children and a public health doctor as well, the first reported case of polio shocked me. We have not had a polio case in Malaysia for 28 years. Just weeks after the first reported case, we hear the devastating news of two more unvaccinated children falling ill due to…
The following article was authored by Dr Feisul Idzwan Mustapha and Dr Arunah Chandran for the conference, “The promise of digital health to address non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries” which was convened by Wilton Park on 25 to 27 November 2019 and published in Infomed Malaysia, Issue 32, Jan- March 2020. Introduction “With…
By empowering family members of people living with diabetes, we hope to create a better supportive environment to improve the quality of life of both the patient and the family as a whole
During the obesity workshop yesterday, Dr Feisul had talked about risk perception in determining adoption of healthy behaviours. It’s not just about awareness and knowledge. Read more here: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4766-x
