Poverty related diseases amongst Malaysia's low-income community: a review

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2023

Abstract

Poverty, as proven by several studies, is a driving force behind poor health and hygiene practices. This review attempts to outline common communicable and non-communicable diseases that disproportionately affect Malaysia's 2.91 million low-income households. The current study also looks into the government's housing and healthcare programmes for this demographic to improve their health and well-being. The initial examination yielded incredibly little research on this marginalised community, with event reporting typically generalised to the Malaysian community as a whole rather than analysing disease incidences based on household income, which would better reflect poverty -driven diseases. As a result, there is an acute need for more accurate information on the epidemiology of diseases among the poor in order to address this public health issue and provide conclusions that can drive policy designs.

Keywords

Health, B40, low-income, poverty, Malaysia

Publication Title

Tropical Biomedicine

Divisions

Parasit,InstituteofBiologicalSciences,tidrec

Funders

Ministry of Higher Education under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) (FRGS/1/2020/SKK0/UM/02/18),Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (IF004-2021)

Volume

40

Issue

1

Publisher

Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine

Publisher Location

21-5-2, BLOCK, E, DIAMOND SQUARE, JALAN 3-50, OFF JALAN GOMBAK, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

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