Research Platforms' Performance Reports SEACO 2015-2017 | Page 9

National Obstetric Registry (NOR)
Ministry of Health, Malaysia
The MISS P work has been extended to include the National
Obstetrics Registry (NOR) of the Ministry of Health, with SEACO
providing all necessary data entry support for the transferring of data
on obstetric outcomes from paper forms into the NOR web system or
online database. This has allowed Segamat Hospital to be the first
district hospital in Malaysia to contribute to the NOR. This has also
established an ongoing collaboration with the NOR to support
analyses of data and identify priority areas of concern in maternal
health and quality of care.
Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH)
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Sexual Health in Senior Citizens is a study commissioned by UNFPA
Malaysia and conducted in collaboration with postgraduate students
from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The study was led in UPM by Dr
Mary Huang and presented an important opportunity for SEACO to
provide community based field methods training to students within the
context of a study of public health relevance. Results from the study
were presented nationally.
Catastrophe and Impoverishment from Diabetes:
An Exploration of the Economic Burden of Diabetes Care (CID)
Duke University & Fudan University
Catastrophic Spending from Non-Communicable Disease: A Case
Study on the Economic Burden of Diabetes on rural households is
a study funded by the Duke Global Health Institute to explore the
economic costs to households and health systems of chronic
diseases like diabetes. The study is being conducted as part of the
PhD candidature of Julius Chee Ho Cheah.
Segamat Paediatric Eye Disease Study (SEGPAEDS)
Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Segamat Paediatric Disease Study (SEGPAEDS) was initiated by
the paediatric ophthalmology team to explore the evidence for
reducing the age for early childhood eye screening. SEACO supported
mass screening of kindergarten school children to determine rates of
correctable visual impairment in under-seven-year olds. Significant
visual problems were studied, suggestive of the need for an economic
evaluation to determine the cost effectiveness of screening in
pre-school aged children.
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