Mazrura Sahani, Hidayatulfathi Othman, Soo Chen Kwan, Liew Juneng, Mohd Faiz Ibrahim, Rozita Hod, Zul'Izzat Ikhwan Zaini, Maizatun Mustafa, Issmail Nnafie, Lai Che Ching, Ramzah Dambul, Helena Varkkey, Vera Ling Hui Phung, Siti Nur Hanis Mamood, Norhafizah Karim, Nur Faizah Abu Bakar, Muhammad Ikram A Wahab, Siti Shahara Zulfakar, Yanti Rosli
The impacts of climate change and degradation are increasingly felt in Malaysia. While everyone is vulnerable to these impacts, the health and wellbeing of children are disproportionately affected. We carried out a study composed of two major components. The first component is an environmental epidemiology study comprised of three sub-studies: (i) a global climate model (GCM) simulating specific health-sector climate indices; (ii) a time-series study to estimate the risk of childhood respiratory disease attributable to ambient air pollution; and (iii) a case-crossover study to identify the association between haze and under-five mortality in Malaysia...
2022: Frontiers in Public Health