The Third NHMS was conducted in 2006 with the aim to provide health related community-based data and information for the Ministry of Health to review health priorities, programme strategies and activities and planning for allocation of resources.
The survey retained most of scopes covered in previous NHMS while focusing on other currently important health issues. In this survey, scopes covered are load of illness, health utilization, injury and risk reduction practice, physical disability, asthma, smoking, alcohol, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia, diabetes mellitus, nutritional status and sexual behaviour, with additional of new scopes such as dengue prevention practice, infant feeding, women's health, and psychiatric morbidity.
List of Research Topics (Report) are as below.
- General Findings (View/Download)
- Health Expenditure (View/Download)
- Oral Health (View/Download)
- Load of Ilness (View/Download)
- Health Utilization (View/Download)
- Injury and Risk Reduction Practice (View/Download)
- Physical Disability (View/Download)
- Asthma (View/Download)
- Dengue Prevention Practice (View/Download)
- Health Information (View/Download)
- Physical Activity (View/Download)
- Smoking (View/Download)
- Alcohol (View/Download)
- Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia (View/Download)
- Diabetes Mellitus (View/Download)
- Infant Feeding (View/Download)
- Nutritional Status (View/Download)
- Women's Health (View/Download)
- Sexual Behaviour (View/Download)
- Psychiatric Morbidity (View/Download)
- Executive Summary (View/Download)