Multifaceted impacts of COVID-19 on bottom forty percent income residents in Malaysia: inequities and co-benefits of interventions

  • Funded by State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation SERI (Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (FHNW) Leading House for South Asia and Iran
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021
  • Funder

    State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation SERI (Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (FHNW) Leading House for South Asia and Iran
  • Principal Investigator

    Prof. Guéladio Cissé
  • Research Location

    Malaysia
  • Lead Research Institution

    Swiss TPH
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The aim of this project is to contribute to a better understanding of the multifaceted impacts of COVID-19 crisis among the bottom low-income urban communities in Malaysia and improve the benefits from public health interventions. The specific objectives are: (i)- To analyze the available epidemiological datasets and determine the finest figures on how the B40 low-income urban communities have been affected by the COVID-19 (clusters, age, gender); (ii)- To identify challenges and successes in implementation of the specific public health interventions against the COVID-19 and other ongoing more general environmental health programs in the B40 communities; (iii)-To explore and discuss with the stakeholders the inequities and co-benefits that could have happened from the different interventions.