Orang Asli (Indigenous Malaysian) Biomedical Bibliography AS Baer

12. Anuar, H. et al. Detection of Malaysian schistosomiasis in Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia
using serodiagnostic tests. SEAJTMPH 15 (4):479, 1984. (On Bkt. Lanjan Temuan, Post
Iskandar Semelai, and Gombak hospital patients and visitors.)
13. Ariff, R. H. T., et al. Health status of aboriginal children in Post Brooke, Kelantan.
Malaysian J. Child Health 9 (1): 60-64, 1997. (This and therein-cited studies showed that Temiar
health problems occur in all age groups; government health services were far from
comprehensive.)
14. Baer, A. Health, Disease and Survival: A Biomedical and Genetic Analysis of the Orang Asli
of Malaysia. Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, 1999. (Considers the
health problems of Orang Asli ethno-linguistic groups individually; has separate chapters on
malaria and nutrition.)
15. Baer, A. Vital Signs, Health in Borneo’s Sarawak. Borneo Research Council, Phillips,
Maine, 2006. (Some comparisons with the Orang Asli situation in W. Malaysia.)
16. Bedford, K. J. A. Gombak and its patients: provision of healthcare to the Orang Asli
(indigenous minority) of Peninsular Malaysia. D. Phil. thesis, Univ. Oxford, England, 2007.
17. Bedford, K. J. A. Gombak hospital, the Orang Asli hospital. Indonesia and the Malay World
37 (107):23-44, 2009. (Discusses the misinformation and prejudices by the Malay elites about
Orang Asli and the “institutionalized laziness” of the largely Malay staff at Gombak hospital;
contrasts this with the much better healthcare available to indigenous peoples of Sarawak and
Sabah.)
18. Bisseru, B. Skin text suggesting human toxocariasis in West Malaysia. MJM 23 (1):35-40,
1968. (In an unidentified Temuan village, dogs were a common reservoir of roundworm
infections for humans; 11% of Gombak hospital Orang Asli patients had positive skin texts for
toxicaria.)
19. Bisseru, B., and A. A. Aziz. Intestinal parasites, eosinophilia, hemoglobin and gamma
globulin of Malay, Chinese, and Indian school children. MJM 25:29-33, 1970. (51% of Orang
Asli children had hookworm; over 90% had some kind of parasitism.)
20. Bolton, J. Medical services to the aborigines in West Malaysia. British Med. J. 2:818-823,
1968. (Discusses the organization of services plus disease rates, immunizations, prematurity,
infant mortality, and birth control.)
21. Bolton, J. Family-centered hospital treatment in the aboriginal people of West Malaysia.
Community Health 5:70-74, 1973. (Reports on weekly distribution of anti-malarials, a semiannual
dental cleaning for children, childhood vaccination, and a decline in TB and malaria.)
22. Bolton, J. A training-oriented medical programme in West Malaysian aboriginals. Med. J.
Australia 2:1122-1125, 1973. (This excellent program was discontinued later.)
23. Brearley, A. Serum proteins, hematocrits, heights, and weights of aborigine subjects in W.
Malaysia. MJM 24:183-186, 1970. (Among 109 Orang Asli visitors to Gombak hospital aged 4
to 45 years, ethnicity unspecified, 21 were from deep forest; none were from uprooted sites.
Serum protein levels were healthy, suggesting that nutrition was adequate.)