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RESEARCH
Research collaboration with the Public Health Institute has generated work covering a wide range of
topics on Violence and Injury. These include the following topics:
• Postnatal Depression and Intimate Partner Violence: A Nationwide Clinic-Based Cross-Sectional
Study in Malaysia
• Prevalence and Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence among Women Attending
Government Primary Health Care Clinics in Malaysia
• Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child? Prevalence of Violent and Non-Violent Disciplinary Methods Among
Malaysian Parents
• Inadequate Care of Children in Malaysia: Findings from NHMS 2016
• Child Discipline in Malaysia And Factors Associated with Violent Disciplinary Methods
• Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SECTOR
Occupational Disease and Injury Surveillance
Occupational Health Unit had several surveillance programs, namely
i. Sharp Injury Surveillance (SIS) among MOH Healthcare Workers (HCW)
ii. Surveillance of Accidents and Injuries among Healthcare Workers (HCW)
iii. Surveillance of Pesticide & Chemical Poisoning
iv. Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases
v. Surveillance of Occupational Skin Diseases
vi. Surveillance of Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)
vii. Investigation of Workplace Accident and Occupational Diseases
viii. Screening of Tuberculosis among High Risk Healthcare Workers (HCW)

The findings of these surveillance program as in Table 20.

• Hepatitis B Immunization of Healthcare Workers (HCW)
Hepatitis B immunization among MoH’s HCW was implemented in two designated groups. Group 1
consists of HCW who has never receive immunization before or Hepatitis B immunization were given
but not completed, while Group 2 includes HCW who had received the complete hepatitis B vaccination
before but do not know their immunization status.

In 2017, a total of 10,151 staffs have signed up for Group 1 and 6,321 (62.3 per cent) staffs were found
to have completed 3 doses of vaccination. A total of 3,819 (60.4 per cent) staffs were screened for
anti-HBs and 3427 (89.7 per cent) were anti-HBs reactive.

Total registered staff for Group 2 in 2017 was 35,704, with about 29,397 HCW were screened for anti-
HBs. Of that total, 24,103 (82.0 per cent) were anti-HBs reactive. A total of 885 HCW were screened
for HBsAg and 100 (11.3 per cent) of them were found to be HBsAg positive.

• Kospen Plus Programme
In year 2017, 194 government and private agencies implemented Programme KOSPEN Plus and
9,636 out of 13,247 workers were screened for NCD risk factors. This program has succeeded Health
Minister’s Key Performance Index (KPI).

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