The healthcare around the globe is developing tremendously and Malaysia is one of the countries which are undergoing a health transition that can promote the wellbeing of the people by reducing morbidity and mortality. Although, Malaysia enjoys tropical climate with warm and humid weather all year round, yet warm and humid climate can create several diseases (Shekhar 1992). Warm and humid climate has induced vector borne disease and water reservoirs serve as breeding ground for vector mosquit...
Fad diets are meal plans or aids that promises quick "weight loss in a short amount of time"(ezinearticles). Usually these fad diets are targeted at peoples who desperately want to lose weight. Some of these fad diets are endorsed by celebrities and so became popular around the world. Fad diets generally focus on one particular food or food type and restrict our calorie intake. Furthermore fad diets "claim that an individual can lose weight without having to exercise" (mamashealth). Therefore...
HISTORY: - ((((1 Measles is considered to be an epidemic disease. It was earlier considered similar to smallpox and chickenpox but it was distinguished first time by a Persian Physician named Muhammad ibn Zakariya (32). In the year 1529, two-thirds of the people of Cuba had been found dead because of the measles outbreak. The population which died had a prior surveillance history of smallpox. At last in 1954, The virus has been recognised (causing measles) in a 11 year old boy called David Ed...
This topic is going to describe the uses of amalgam in dental treatment and explain the proprieties of dental amalgam that made it the most consumer dental filling ,also this topic will discuss the toxic effects of mercury in dental amalgam. Dental amalgam is one of the oldest dental materials that used in the oral cavity to replace the function and anatomy of the damaged teeth. Dental amalgam used from hundreds of years that the earliest use of amalgam as restorative dental materials was a s...
During gene expression, information from a gene is used to synthesise a functional gene product, which can be often proteins. In non-protein coding genes, such as rRNA genes or tRNA genes, a functional RNA is produced. All known life (eukaryotes, prokaryotes and viruses) perform gene expression. The steps in the gene expression are not always exactly the same. The process may be modified at the level of transcription, RNA splicing, translation, and post-translational modification of protein. ...
Fatigue Management Techniques: Reducing the impact of stress in the workplace Stress in the workplace often happens. It is a common problem among workers in various parts of this world. According to Elkins and Tenney (1997) stress is defined as the pressure, tension, or excess strain and its profound effects on the mental and physical health support that fact that we live in a high stress world. Aside from stress, fatigue also occurs in a number of workers in the work place. According to Cerc...
Probiotics Dental Plaque Oral disease is the most common and costly forms of infections in humans. Only a few studies have been conducted in probiotics for oral health compared with gastrointestinal tract in the past few years. Oral probiotics are likely to have the same mechanisms with the probiotics of gastrointestinal tract, when considering the fact that mouth is first organ consisting of gastrointestinal tract. This review aims to describe current knowledge with respect to probiotic bact...
The lack of awareness to the proper meals and the fast pace of life have supposed to be created a negative impact on nutritional health as this bad habit is been formed by snacking or eating between the meals. This occurrence of snacking is not a modern trend, which also can be looking back in the past history, when the eating was frequent and habitual. Wherein with time-to-time accepting the modern lifestyle, snacking also got accepted as in survey an average adult consuming snack 6.5 times ...
To establish the need for education amongst the population and its vital role in reducing HIV transmission. To assess the effectiveness (and thus the strengths and limitations) of various educational campaigns in preventing spread of HIV. To determine the psychological and social factors that may contribute to the effectiveness of such campaigns. During the 1980s and 1990s, the spread of HIV increased dramatically within the UK, however has slowed down over the last 20 years (1). Currently th...
Introduction (150) Quantitative research is the investigation of phenomena that give themselves to exact measurement and quantification, which attached a rigorous and controlled design (Polit & Beck 2008). It's has main purpose is to measure concept or variables objectively in numerical and statistical process, also relationship between variables (Parahoo 2006). The research methods are obtained from research design and generally include sample, intervention (if applicable), instruments, data...
