1.Gender, citizenship and health-related quality of life: An overall perspective from Malaysia
Makmor Tumin ; Ahmad Farid Osman ; Nurhidayah Abdullah ; Sook Lu Yong
International e-Journal of Science, Medicine and Education 2017;11(2):14-23
Objectives: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is
an essential dimension of overall human quality of life,
in which disparities have been hypothesised between
women and men, as well as between citizens and
non-citizens of a country in past literatures. This study
is to evaluate and compare the HRQoL of citizens and
non-citizens living in greater Kuala Lumpur and Johor
Bahru, as well as comparing HRQoL between genders.
Materials and Methods: The SF-8 questionnaire was
used to collect information from 1,708 respondents
(1,032 Malaysian citizens and 676 non-citizens),
via face-to-face interview between October and
December 2015.
Results: Overall, respondents reported moderate
HRQoL. Non-citizens reported better HRQoL than the
Malaysian citizens, while men reported better HRQoL
compared to women (for both citizens and non-citizens).
Conclusions: The HRQoL of both citizens and noncitizens’
in Malaysia could be improved. Measures should
be taken to remove the disparity in HRQoL between
men and women, aiming to achieve equal health status
for both genders.
2.Assessing Countries’ Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation Performance
Makmor Tumin ; Khaled Tafran ; Wan Ahmad Hafiz Wan Md Adnan ; Ahmad Farid Osman
Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences 2023;19(No.2):170-174
Introduction: Donors per million population and transplantations per million population are standardized, widely
used indicators to assess and compare countries’ performance in organ donation and transplantation. This study aims
to investigate these two particular metrics of organ donation and transplantation performance, and to introduce a
new index, namely, ‘transplantations per patients on the waiting list’. Methods: Secondary analyses of data on 23
countries in 2016 were used to construct the transplantations per patients on the waiting list indicator for kidney,
liver, pancreas, heart, and lung transplantation, as well as for the transplantation of any of the five aforementioned
organs. Results: According to the transplantations per patients on the waiting list, the best-performing countries in
terms of organ donation and transplantation are Belarus for kidney transplantation, Finland for liver and pancreas
transplantation, Australia for heart transplantation, and France for lung transplantation. Considering all five organs
together, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Austria, and Poland were the top five best-performing countries, followed by
Spain in the sixth position. Conclusion: The deceased transplantations per patients on the waiting list can be an
alternative indicator to assess performance, along with the widely-used donors and transplantations per million population, but still has its limitations in certain scenarios.