Chapter Five: Analysing Health and Education

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
VOL LXXII NO.95 DECEMBER 2017

Title :
Chapter Five: Analysing Health and Education

Author :
Joseph Ko Tee Hock

Abstract:

Chapter Five presents two important aspects of any socioeconomic studies, i.e. health and education. The health study refers specifically to dental health of Sarawak school children in Simanggang and Miri between August 1960 andMay1971.Analysis were made of dental caries by sex, age groups, ethnicity and geographical areas. Included also is a methodological study on the collection and usage of fertility and mortality statistics; reviewed are the vital registration system, direct approaches, multi-round survey and indirect techniques. Chapter five ends with a study on concept, rate and trend of literacy in Sarawak, analyses between 1947 and 1980 by ethnic group, strata, age-group, sex and compared with Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah.

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Joseph Ko Tee Hock. (2017). Chapter Five: Analysing Health and Education. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXVII (98) : 213-265

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