Whye Lian Cheah
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Biography
Dr Cheah Whye Lian is an associate professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Public Health. Her research focused on the issues on overweight and obesity from children to adulthood. She has knowledge in conducting quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research. Her work also involves studies among the indigenous groups of Sarawak, looking at the interaction between cultural and health behaviors, particularly among the Iban and Bidayuh communities. She is the principal investigator of a project focusing on non-communicable disease among adolescents in Sarawak funded by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. She also had completed projects on physical activity, body image, disordered eating among school children.
Abstract
Abstract : its prevalence and association with obesity among indigenous adolescents of Sarawak, Malaysia