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Nawi Ng is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a total of 102 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics centered on public and global health.

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Many of Nawi Ng's publications have appeared across key venues in public health and medical sciences, including:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Geriatrics

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Substance Use Disorders and COVID-19: Multi-Faceted Problems Which Require Multi-Pronged Solutions (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Impact of non-communicable disease multimorbidity on health service use, catastrophic health expenditure and productivity loss in Indonesia: a population-based panel data analysis study (2021), published in BMJ Open
  • A longitudinal study on social support, social participation, and older Europeans' Quality of life (2021), published in SSM - Population Health
  • Gender differences and determinants of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among adults in China and Sweden (2020), published in BMC Public Health
  • The beneficial effect over 3 years by pictorial information to patients and their physician about subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk: Results from the VIPVIZA randomized clinical trial (2021), published in American Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Nawi Ng frequently collaborates with several co-authors, indicating ongoing partnerships within their research community. These co-authors include:

  • Ailiana Santosa
  • Malin Eriksson
  • Kanya Anindya
  • Lars Weinehall
  • John Tayu Lee

Best Publications

  • The rise of chronic non-communicable diseases in southeast Asia: time for action

    Antonio Dans;Nawi Ng;Nawi Ng;Cherian Varghese;E Shyong Tai

  • Forecast of dengue incidence using temperature and rainfall.

    Yien Ling Hii;Huaiping Zhu;Nawi Ng;Lee Ching Ng

  • Factors affecting the use of maternal health services in Madhya Pradesh state of India: a multilevel analysis

    Tej Ram Jat;Tej Ram Jat;Nawi Ng;Miguel San Sebastian

  • Short-term Effects of Weather on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

    Yien Ling Hii;Joacim Rocklöv;Nawi Ng

  • Risk Factors and Disability Associated with Low Back Pain in Older Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Results from the WHO Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE)

    Jennifer Stewart Williams;Nawi Ng;Karl Peltzer;Alfred Yawson

  • Climate variability and increase in intensity and magnitude of dengue incidence in Singapore

    Yien Ling Hii;Joacim Rocklöv;Nawi Ng;Choon Siang Tang

  • Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nawi Ng;Nirmala Naidoo

  • Visualization of asymptomatic atherosclerotic disease for optimum cardiovascular prevention (VIPVIZA): a pragmatic, open-label, randomised controlled trial

    Ulf Näslund;Nawi Ng;Anna Lundgren;Eva Fhärm

  • ‘If I don’t smoke, I'm not a real man'—Indonesian teenage boys' views about smoking

    Nawi Ng;Lars Weinehall;Ann Öhman

  • Common risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among older adults in China, Ghana, Mexico, India, Russia and South Africa: the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) wave 1

    Fan Wu;Yanfei Guo;Somnath Chatterji;Yang Zheng

  • Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE).

    Perianayagam Arokiasamy;Uttamacharya;Paul Kowal;Benjamin D. Capistrant

  • Community perceptions of air pollution and related health risks in Nairobi slums.

    Thaddaeus Egondi;Catherine Kyobutungi;Nawi Ng;Kanyiva Muindi

  • Reading culture from tobacco advertisements in Indonesia

    Mimi Nichter;S Padmawati;M Danardono;Nawi Ng

  • Health and quality of life among older rural people in Purworejo District, Indonesia

    Nawi Ng;Mohammad Hakimi;Peter Byass;Siswanto Wilopo

  • Progress toward universal health coverage in ASEAN

    Hoang Van Minh;Nicola Suyin Pocock;Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk;Chhea Chhorvann

  • Prevalence of physical inactivity in nine rural INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in five Asian countries

    Nawi Ng;Mohammad Hakimi;Hoang Van Minh;Sanjay Juvekar

  • Fruit and vegetable consumption in rural adults population in INDEPTH HDSS sites in Asia

    Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem;Nawi Ng;Hoang Van Minh;Abdur Razzaque

  • Preventable risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in rural Indonesia: prevalence study using WHO STEPS approach

    Nawi Ng;Hans Stenlund;Ruth Bonita;Mohammad Hakimi

  • Substance Use Disorders and COVID-19: Multi-Faceted Problems Which Require Multi-Pronged Solutions

    Wossenseged Birhane Jemberie;Wossenseged Birhane Jemberie;Jennifer Stewart Williams;Jennifer Stewart Williams;Malin Eriksson;Ann Sofie Grönlund

  • Clustering of chronic non-communicable disease risk factors among selected Asian populations: levels and determinants.

    Syed Masud Ahmed;Abdullahel Hadi;Abdur Razzaque;Ali Ashraf

  • Trends of blood pressure levels and management in Vasterbotten County, Sweden, during 1990-2010.

    Nawi Ng;Bo Carlberg;Lars Weinehall;Margareta Norberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Hoang Van Minh
Hoang Van Minh Hanoi University of Public Health
Joacim Rocklöv
Joacim Rocklöv Umeå University
Mark Nichter
Mark Nichter University of Arizona
Syed Masud Ahmed
Syed Masud Ahmed BRAC University
Miguel San Sebastian
Miguel San Sebastian Umeå University
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Karl Peltzer
Karl Peltzer Asian University

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