Dung Yun Trieu, Phuong Mello-Thoms, Claudia Peat, Jennifer K Doan Do, Thuan Brennan, Patrick C
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Asia-Pacific journal of public health
The aim of this study was to investigate how breast density interacted with demographic, reproductive, and lifestyle features among Vietnamese women. Mammographic density and established risk factors for breast cancer were collected from 1651 women (345 cancer cases and 1306 normal cases) in Vietnam. The association of breast density categories wit...
Reid, Gary Sharma, Mukta Higgs, Peter
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Journal of public health research
The South-East Asia Region contains an estimated 400,000-500,000 people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV prevalence among PWID is commonly 20% or higher in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and some regions of India. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is an important HIV prevention intervention in this part of the world. However, key challenges and barriers ...
Slípková, Marie
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Slípková, Marie
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Zulkifli, S N Low, W Y
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The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
This paper describes findings on selected determinants of sexual intercourse among 468 unmarried adolescents from a survey in Malaysia. Using multivariate logistic regression, respondents' demographic factors, attitudes towards sex, contraceptive use, and living arrangements were analyzed. Overall, it is shown that the proportion of unmarried adole...
Watt, G Kantipong, P Jongsakul, K Watcharapichat, P Phulsuksombati, D Strickman, D
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
Rifampicin is more effective than doxycycline against scrub-typhus infections acquired in northern Thailand, where strains with reduced susceptibility to antibiotics can occur.
Kumar, S
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
The study entitled "Women of South-East-Asia: A Health Profile", released by WHO on September 5, takes an in-depth look at women's health in the region beyond a medical issue confined to biological factors amenable to medical intervention. The report underscores the paucity of and need for sex-specific data on the incidence and prevalence of diseas...
Auer, C Sarol, J Jr Tanner, M Weiss, M
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Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Inefficient case finding is an important stumbling block to successful control of tuberculosis (TB). Multiple health seeking may account for delayed case finding. Health-seeking behaviour, health seeking delay, perceived causes, and perceived quality of care related to TB were studied in interviews with 319 sputum smear-positive TB patients. The pa...
Pannarunothai, S Srithamrongsawat, S Kongpan, M Thumvanna, P
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Health policy and planning
The Thai health card scheme originated from a pilot study on community financing and primary health care in maternal and child health in 1983. The scheme later changed to one of voluntary health insurance and finally received a matching subsidy from the government. The coverage of the scheme is described by a U-curve, i.e. it started with 5% of the...
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AIDS weekly
Urgent action is needed to fight the alarming spread of HIV/AIDS that infected 1.3 million people in Southeast Asia last year alone, Malaysia's foreign minister said July 24, 2000. Syed Hamid said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should tackle at regional and national level an epidemic that was taking its most drastic toll among t...
