Health Screening Behaviour among Female Urban Dwellers

Nik Nairan Abdullah; Mohd Shahril Ahmad Saman; Nor Aini Mohd Noor

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v1i1.204

Authors

Nik Nairan Abdullah Population Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Sungai Buloh and 47000, Malaysia
Mohd Shahril Ahmad Saman Population Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Sungai Buloh and 47000, Malaysia
Nor Aini Mohd Noor Population Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Sungai Buloh and 47000, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v1i1.204

Keywords:

Older People, Female, Urban, Health Screening

Abstract

An ageing population is a public health challenge, affects most countries. Health screenings are able to detect diseases at the earliest stage. A cross-sectional study in December 2014 conducted among 643 older women who randomly interviewed using structured questionnaire from two urban governmental health centres in Malaysia. Aims of the study were to describe health screening services behaviour and health care accessibility among women aged 50 and above. Factors such as living arrangement and age played important roles in health screening execution among older female community dwellers. Advocacy on health screening is vital as to reduce the morbidity and mortality among them.

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