Zhen Ling Ong

AB007. Adolescent elopement in child marriage contexts: counter-narratives of resistance, relief, and risk from Rohingya refugee youth in Malaysia

Zhen Ling Ong, Tharani Loganathan, Asma Zahir Ahmed, Joelle Mak et autres

Background: Child marriage and early unions (CMEU) affect around 640 million girls worldwide. Global health narratives often frame CMEU as gender-based violence—family-driven and inherently harmful—linked to risky pregnancies, school dropout, and domestic violence. However, these discourses frequently overlook how adolescents assess their …

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Migration health ethics in Southeast Asia: a scoping review

Shu Hui Ng, Sharon Kaur, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Zhen Ling Ong et autres

Background Asia hosts the second-largest international migrant population in the world. In Southeast Asia (SEA), key types of migration are labour migration, forced migration, and environmental migration. This scoping review seeks to identify key themes and gaps in current research on the …

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Migration health ethics in Southeast Asia: a scoping review

Shu Hui Ng, Sharon Kaur, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Zhen Ling Ong et autres

Background: Asia hosts the second-largest international migrant population in the world. In Southeast Asia (SEA), key types of migration are labour migration, forced migration, and environmental migration. This scoping review seeks to identify key themes and gaps in current research on the …

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Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) participatory learning and action women’s groups to improve infant feeding and practices in South Asian infants: pilot randomised trial study protocol

Logan Manikam, Shereen Allaham, Priyanka Patil, Maryan Naman et autres

INTRODUCTION: Feeding practices developed in early life can impact a child's nutrition, growth, dental health, cognitive development and lifetime risk of chronic diseases. Substantial evidence suggests ethnic health inequalities, and non-recommended complementary infant feeding practices among UK's South Asian (SA) population. Nurture …

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Migration health ethics in Southeast Asia: a scoping review

Shu Hui Ng, Sharon Kaur, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Zhen Ling Ong et autres

Background: Asia hosts the second-largest international migrant population in the world. In Southeast Asia (SEA), key types of migration are labour migration, forced migration, and environmental migration. This scoping review seeks to identify key themes and gaps in current research on the …

Barriers and facilitators to education access for marginalised non-citizen children in Malaysia: A qualitative study

Tharani Loganathan, Zhen Ling Ong, Fikri Hassan, Zhie X. Chan et autres

In Malaysia, marginalised non-citizen children are excluded from formal education at public schools. Recognising education as a fundamental human right, the barriers and facilitators to educational access among refugee and asylum-seeker, migrant, stateless and undocumented children in Malaysia were explored. Qualitative data …

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Undocumented: An examination of legal identity and education provision for children in Malaysia

Tharani Loganathan, Zhie X. Chan, Fikri Hassan, Zhen Ling Ong et autres

Education is a fundamental human right. Yet there remain gaps in our understanding of undocumented children in Malaysia and their vulnerabilities in education access. This study aims to describe and contextualise undocumented children in Malaysia and their access to education. We conducted …

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Improving infant feeding, care, and dental hygiene practices in South Asian infants aged younger than 2 years in east London through women's group participatory learning and action cycles (NEON): a behaviour intervention trial

Logan Manikam, Shereen Allaham, Zhen Ling Ong, Michelle Heys et autres

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Association between sleep quality and type 2 diabetes at 20-year follow-up in the Southall and Brent REvisited (SABRE) cohort: a triethnic analysis

Zhen Ling Ong, Nish Chaturvedi, Therese Tillin, Caroline Dale et autres

BACKGROUND: The risk of developing type 2 diabetes associated with poor sleep quality is comparable to other lifestyle factors (eg, overweight, physical inactivity). In the UK, these risk factors could not explain the two to three-fold excess risks in South-Asian and African-Caribbean …

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The Association between Sleep Quality and Type Two Diabetes at 20 Year Follow-up in the Southall And Brent REvisited (SABRE) Cohort: a Tri-ethnic Analysis

Zhen Ling Ong, Nish Chaturvedi, Therese Tillin, Caroline Dale et autres

Abstract Objective The risk of developing type 2 diabetes associated with poor sleep quality is comparable to that of traditional risk factors (e.g. overweight, physical inactivity). In the United Kingdom, these traditional risk factors could not explain the two to three-fold excess …

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