Child health in Malaysia.

Child health in Malaysia.

Malaya achieved its independence in 1957; in 1963 it combined with Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore (which seceded two years later) to form Malaysia. Today, Malaysia is a country in transition and thus has health problems ofboth undeveloped and developed countries. The main provider of health care in the country is the Ministry of Health through its extensive network of health centres, rural clini...

Child health in Malaysia: 1870-1985.

165 The total number of births registered in 1920 in the Federated Malay States was 36,566, while deaths of children under a year of age was 6,920 giving an infant mortality rate of 194 per 1,000 live births. Convulsions, the cause assigned to 3,460 deaths for that year, was actually not a disease but a symptom. Most of the deaths were probably caused by gastro-intestinal troubles reportedly th...

Health laboratory services in Malaysia.

Laboratory medicine is the study of disease and in particular the use of the conventional laboratory disciplines of biochemistry, microbiology, hematology and histology in this study. It has received progressive recognition during the past 100 years as an area of specialisation within medicine. The results that a clinical laboratory provide are an extension of the information that a clinician d...

Plasma Fractionation in Malaysia

A Review of Research on Child Abuse in Malaysia.

The aim of this review was to summarise published literature on child abuse and neglect and its consequences in Malaysia, to discuss the implications of the research findings and to identify gaps in the local literature on child abuse and neglect. Medical and social literature in the English language published between the year 2000 to 2015 were searched for, resulting in forty four papers to be...