Shajahan Yasin

Biographic Data

ID109394
NAMEShajahan Yasin
GIVEN NAMESShajahan
FAMILY NAMEYasin
SIGNATUREYASIN S
AFFILIATIONSMonash University Malaysia
ORCID0000-0001-7739-6099
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Predicting higher child BMI z-score and obesity incidence in Malaysia

    Open AccessRuth Salway, Miranda Elaine Glynis Armstrong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Having a higher BMI z-score at baseline was a stronger predictor of a higher BMI z-score at follow-up than any parental or sociodemographic factor. Targeting prevention efforts based on parent or sociodemographic factors is unwarranted but early childhood remains a key period for universal obesity prevention

  • An Exploratory Model of Family Resilience Processes and Functioning

    Open AccessRyan Yumin Chua, Amudha Kadirvelu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2021

    Given the challenges experienced by the Semai indigenous communities in Perak, Malaysia, and their distinct cultural beliefs, it is important to understand the role of the social and cultural networks in their resilience processes. In particular, further attention needs to be paid to how their families function and shape their beliefs about their lives, as there might be key mechanisms and processes that differ from existing general conceptualiza…

  • The cultural, family and community factors for resilience in southeast asian indigenous communities

    Open AccessRyan Yumin Chua, Amudha Kadirvelu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2019

    Although faced with historical and ongoing hardships, many indigenous communities in Southeast Asia have managed to survive and thrive. The identification of factors that assist these communities in coping with the challenges experienced would help enhance their overall psychological well‐being and resilience. The current review outlines types of protective factors for the indigenous communities in Southeast Asia focusing on the cultural, family …

  • Cohorts and community

    Open AccessPascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Community engagement is an increasingly important requirement of public health research and plays an important role in the informed consent and recruitment process. However, there is very little guidance about how it should be done, the indicators for assessing effectiveness of the community engagement process and the impact it has on recruitment, retention, and ultimately on the quality of the data collected as part of longitudinal c…

  • The rural bite in population pyramids

    Open AccessNowrozy Kamar Jahan, Pascale Allotey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    The health services needs of an older population will tend towards chronic conditions, rather than the typically acute conditions of childhood. The relatively greater number of older people in the rural population suggest a very different health services mix need. Community based population monitoring provides critical information to inform health systems

  • Contextualizing chronicity

    Open AccessShajahan Yasin, Carina K Y Chan et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2012

    The increasing prevalence of chronic Non Communicable Disease (NCD) around the world is well documented and projections suggest a frightening increase in prevalence around the world. The majority of new patients with chronic disease are expected to occur in developing countries

  • Community-based blood pressure measurement by non-health workers using electronic devices

    Open AccessDaniel D Reidpath, MeiLee Ling et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2012

    INTRODUCTION: Population monitoring and screening of blood pressure is an important part of any population health strategy. Qualified health workers are expensive and often unavailable for screening. Non-health workers with electronic blood pressure monitors are increasingly used in community-based research. This approach is unvalidated. In a poor, urban community we compared blood pressure measurements taken by non-health workers using electroni…