The global problem of childhood diarrhoeal diseases: emerging strategies in prevention and management

M Mokomane, I Kasvosve, E Melo… - Therapeutic …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Acute diarrhoeal diseases remain a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality
particularly among young children in resource-limited countries. Recent large studies …

News media narratives of Covid-19 across 20 countries: Early global convergence and later regional divergence

R Ng, TYJ Chow, W Yang - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Seldom in history does one get a 'front row seat'—with large-scale dynamic
data—on how online news media narratives shift with a global pandemic. News media …

[HTML][HTML] Societal age stereotypes in the US and UK from a media database of 1.1 billion words

R Ng - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, 194 World Health Organization member states called on the international
organization to develop a global campaign to combat ageism, citing its alarming ubiquity …

Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors

A Komarulzaman, J Smits, E de Jong - Global public health, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Diarrhoea is an important health issue in low-and middle-income countries, including
Indonesia. We applied a multilevel regression analysis on the Indonesian Demographic and …

The impact of aging policy on societal age stereotypes and ageism

R Ng, TYJ Chow, W Yang - The Gerontologist, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives While studies have researched ageism in public policy,
few investigated the impact of aging policy on ageism—typically, an unintended …

[HTML][HTML] A planetary health model for reducing exposure to faecal contamination in urban informal settlements: Baseline findings from Makassar, Indonesia

MA French, SF Barker, RR Taruc, A Ansariadi… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The intense interactions between people, animals and environmental systems
in urban informal settlements compromise human and environmental health. Inadequate …

Role-based framing of older adults linked to decreased ageism over 210 years: Evidence from a 600-million-word historical corpus

R Ng, N Indran - The Gerontologist, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives Older adults are exhibiting greater diversity in their
aging trajectories. This has led to movements by the World Health Organization and AARP …

Societal narratives on caregivers in Asia

R Ng, N Indran - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although there has been an increase in awareness of the struggles experienced by
caregivers, discourse on caregiving remains confined mostly to academia, policy circles or …

Reframing aging during COVID‐19: familial role‐based framing of older adults linked to decreased ageism

R Ng, N Indran - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Contributions of older adults amid the COVID‐19 pandemic have been eclipsed
by discourse positioning them as an at‐risk population. We assess whether age‐based …

[HTML][HTML] Youth is prized in medicine, old age is valued in law: analysis of media narratives over 200 years

R Ng, N Indran - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024 - jmir.org
Background This is the first study to explore how age has influenced depictions of doctors
and lawyers in the media over the course of 210 years, from 1810 to 2019. The media …