AUGUST 23 — The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation recently co-published a report titled, “The Direct Health-Care Cost of Noncommunicable Diseases in Malaysia” on August 9, 2022.
The MOH 2020 report alluded to also revealed that the “burden of disease” of the three selected NCDs are according to four attributable risk factors: unhealthy diets, tobacco use, low physical activity, and alcohol use. However, because the combined effects of the risk factors have not been considered as such, percentages by disease are not to be regarded as cumulative.
Moreover, Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali said that according to the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019, 95 per cent of Malaysians do not consume enough vegetables as recommended by MOH. In addition, according to the NHMS 2019, children from B40 households had obesity and overweight prevalence rates of 15.6 per cent and 15.4 per cent, respectively.
Furthermore, according to the “Health Literacy in Malaysia: A Population Based Study” , which is based on a cross-sectional population-based survey conducted as part of the NHMS 2019, 37.7 per cent of the B40 group had limited health illiteracy — the highest among the income groups. The labels provide information on the specific compositions and structures of the foods concerned — e.g., whether these are high or low in saturated fat, salt and sugar.
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