Publications by authors named "M Oris"
Introduction: over one third of total Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years lost in Kenya are due to non-communicable diseases (NCD). In response, the Government declared significant commitment towards improving NCD care. The COVID-19 pandemic increased the burden on the already overstretched health systems in Kenya.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn Online Survey of the Perceptions of Clinical and Non-Clinical Professionals on Healthcare for Non-Communicable Diseases and COVID-19 Measures During the Pandemic in Malaysia.
Int J Public Health
June 2023
Article Synopsis
- - The study explores the views of Malaysian health professionals on how non-communicable disease (NCD) services were disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to January 2022, using an online survey with 191 health workers.
- - Participants highlighted significant issues like the redirection of resources and the burden on NCD care following the pandemic, but also noted the healthcare system's resilience and need for innovation.
- - While many respondents felt that challenges were mostly managed effectively, the study reveals gaps in the health system's response and suggests improvements for better NCD service delivery in the future.
Consistent with research on stereotype threat, when examiners' characteristics make a stereotype of the participant group salient, it can hamper participants' performance. We hypothesized that younger examiners represent a subtle element activating age stereotypes, leading older people to perform worse as examiners' age decreases. We analyzed data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE; N = 32768) and Vivre-Leben-Vivere studies (VLV, N = 960), wherein older people were tested at home by examiners of different ages on eight cognitive tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious work has found that later life urban-rural differences in cognitive health can be largely explained by indicators of cognitive reserve such as education or occupation. However, previous research concentrated on residence in limited, specific, periods. This study offers a detailed investigation on the association between urban (vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: We investigated the mediating role of leisure activity engagement as marker of cognitive reserve in the relation between neighborhood socio-economic position (SEP) and cognitive decline over 6 years.
Methods: The study analyzed longitudinal data from 897 older adults who participated in the two waves (2011 and 2017) of the Vivre-Leben-Vivere (VLV) survey in Switzerland ( = 74.33 years in the first wave).