Currently, the incidence of disasters is the biggest catastrophes that threaten people‟s livelihoods, health, and others welfare around the world. This situation provides the challenges for health care professionals, particularly nurses. As a result, there is a global need for all healthcare workers to be prepared and be competent in disaster man

Background:Since modern disasters, natural or human-made occur more frequently, causing more deaths, affecting more people and increasing economic loss. This becomes making difficult on healthcare system and personnel while assisting and ensuring the lives of the disaster population because of lack of medical resources in conjunction with a mass ca

Elderly is very vulnerable to loneliness and it is a barrier to achieve successful ageing. Prevalence of loneliness among the elderly is increasing as well as other associated factors that make it worse. in addition, loneliness has a negative impact on our quality of life, and mental and physical health. Moreover, the assessment and identification

Stroke is a global health problem which is associated with morbidity and mortality. In Malaysia, stroke is one of the top five leading causes of death [1,2]. According to the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) in 2006, the prevalence of stroke was estimated to be 0.3% and progressively increased in trend. The fourth NHMS in 2011 repo

Aging is a lifelong and inevitable process. As a human being, every person wants to have a long life. With the aim to promote active and healthy ageing, the Ministry of Health implemented the elderly health care project in Myanmar since 1992-1993. This programme is based on comprehensive health care; promotion, preventive, curative and rehabilitati

A cross-sectional study involving 43 parents with CTEV child was conducted from 18 July till 27 August 2016 at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan. Self-administered Malay version of Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 items (DASS-21)1 is used to measure the psychological wellbeing of the parents and the Malay version of Brief COPE is used to measure c

A novel and safe essential amino acid (Leucine) incorporating sulfanilamide was synthesized, and evaluated for its anti-ulcerogenic activity and in vitro anti-Helicobacter pylori activity. The new molecule showed a dose dependent activity against absolute ethanol-induced ulcer in rats, it produced percent protection of control ulcer by 66.7 at dose

This article reviews the role of educational institutions in the development of printing press industry in Malaya from the mid of the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The main focus of the paper is to investigate the effects of educational institutions on the emergence of printing press companies. The paper suggests that, although the p

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to identify the incidence of clavicle fractures in newborn associated with fetal, maternal and process of deliveries in Kuantan General Hospital from June 2012 until January 2014. This study is to determine epidemiological data of clavicle fractures, maternal and baby risk factors associated with clavicle

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