A priority list of environmental health issues for Malaysia.

IF 3 4区医学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Reviews on Environmental Health Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI:10.1515/reveh-2022-0030

Jamal Hisham Hashim, Zailina Hashim, Rozita Hod, Juliana Jalaludin, Norlen Mohamed, Subramaniam Karuppannan, Ahmad Riadz Mazeli, Suhaily Sahrani, Zairul Ain Zulkaflli

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Objectives: Environmental risk factors contribute to 24% of the global burden of disease from all causes in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and to 23% of all global deaths. Malaysia being an advanced developing country, there is a need to prioritise environmental health issues to enable environmental health practitioners to focus on the most significant and urgent environmental health concerns.

Content: This project was undertaken by a Thematic Working Group on Environmental Health Experts (TWG 10) under the Malaysian National Environmental Health Action Plan. Sixteen pre-selected environmental health issues were presented to a two focus group discussions among 20 environmental health and related professionals who then scored each issue on its magnitude and severity scale.

Summary: The total of these scores generated a list of priority environmental health issues for Malaysia. Children environmental health came out as the environmental health issue of the highest priority.

Outlook: We hope that this list of priority environmental health issues will be used for prioritising academic and professional manpower training, research funding allocation and planning for intervention programmes by various stakeholders.

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马来西亚环境卫生问题优先清单。

目标:在残疾调整生命年(DALYs)中，环境风险因素占全球所有原因造成的疾病负担的24%，占全球所有死亡人数的23%。马来西亚是一个先进的发展中国家，有必要优先考虑环境卫生问题，使环境卫生从业人员能够集中注意最重要和最紧迫的环境卫生问题。内容:该项目由环境卫生专家专题工作组(twg10)根据马来西亚国家环境卫生行动计划开展。将16个预先选定的环境卫生问题提交给20名环境卫生和相关专业人员参加的两个焦点小组讨论，然后他们根据每个问题的程度和严重程度对其进行评分。摘要:这些分数的总和产生了马来西亚的优先环境卫生问题清单。儿童环境卫生成为环境卫生问题的重中之重。展望:我们希望这份优先环境卫生问题清单将用于各持份者的学术和专业人力培训、研究经费分配和规划干预方案的优先次序。

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Reviews on Environmental Health Social Sciences-Health (social science)

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7.20

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2.60%

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期刊介绍： Reviews on Environmental Health (REVEH) is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to fill the need for publication of review articles on hot topics in the field of environmental health. Reviews on Environmental Health aims to be an inspiring forum for scientists, environmentalists, physicians, engineers, and students who are concerned with aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physiological and psychosociological interactions between man and physical, chemical, biological, and social factors in the environment. Reviews on Environmental Health is an important niche served by no other journal, that’s being a site where thoughtful reviews can be published on a variety of subjects related to both health and environment. One challenge is to bridge the research on environmental causes of disease with the clinical practice of medicine. Reviews on Environmental Health is a source of integrated information on environment and health subjects that will be of value to the broad scientific community, whether students, junior and senior professionals, or clinicians.