DENGUE OUTBREAK: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH

Dengue is an endemic disease that occurs across Malaysia with a large number of fatality cases being recorded each year. The Ministry of Health Malaysia has came out with the national dengue strategic plan in controlling the disease outbreak. Therefore, this study aims to develop a system dynamics model of dengue to help policy makers in simulating the effectiveness of the public health intervention. Simulation model can show the successes and failures of past policies, as well as predicting the consequences of selected policy proposals before their implementation. From this, future research can be done in order to enhance the existing intervention or to prompt new strategy in overcoming the problem

Impact of instagram on self-esteem among students in Northern University: a case study in UUM

Instagram is utilized each day universally and it is a more up to date free social networking site. It is an online versatile photograph sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that empowers its users to take pictures and recordings and offer them on various stages. Self esteem refers to both an individual’s affective feeling towards themselves (how much they like themselves) as well as their cognitive judgment of their own self-worth. This study was conducted through interview among selected students in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Focus of this study is the impact of Instagram on selfesteem in individual and the different on self-esteem between genders. The result shows many of the responses were positive feelings about themselves. Meanwhile, findings also show that there is a difference in self-esteem between the male and a female students which is female students has more self-esteem than male students. Social media play an important role in individual life. It is further pointed out that more current and future research is relevant to the use of social media and its importance to the development of one's self-esteem

Dengue outbreak: a system dynamics approach

Dengue is an endemic disease that occurs across Malaysia with a large number of fatality cases being recorded each year. The Ministry of Health Malaysia has came out with the national dengue strategic plan in controlling the disease outbreak. Therefore, this study aims to develop a system dynamics model of dengue to help policy makers in simulating the effectiveness of the public health intervention. Simulation model can show the successes and failures of past policies, as well as predicting the consequences of selected policy proposals before their implementation. From this, future research can be done in order to enhance the existing intervention or to prompt new strategy in overcoming the problem

Assessment on University Students’ Financial Management Skills

Financial management defined as behavior and perceptions about how financial is managed. For the present, student financial management refers to the behavior and perceptions of how students manage their finances and handle their money during studies. The aim of this study is to assess university students’ financial management skills. Data were collected among Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) students. The selection of this sample was students with an age between 18 years old to 25 years old. The sample was selected through the simple random sampling technique with the sample size of 114 respondents. Perceived financial management skills were measured using a Likert scale from 1 (unskilled) to 5 (skilful) on 12 management related items: daily expenses, debt, future needs, time, savings, use of education loan, purpose of education loan, social interaction, stress, decision making, problem solving and career planning. The data were analyzed by using t-tests and Analyses of Variances (ANOVA) through Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. The scores for the financial management skills were computed and the results revealed there was no gender difference in the score. However, the female students showed a higher level of financial skills than the males. Therefore, there are significant differences in the mean score among ethnic groups, with Indian students scoring the lowest compared to other ethnic group

Financial Management Skills Of Student University

Financial management defined as behavior and perceptions about how financial is managed. For the present, student financial management refers to the behavior and perceptions of how students manage their finances and handle their money during studies. The aim of this study is to assess university students’ financial management skills. Data were collected among Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) students. The selection of this sample was students with an age between 18 years old to 25 years old. The sample was selected through the simple random sampling technique with the sample size of 114 respondents. Perceived financial management skills were measured using a Likert scale from 1 (unskilled) to 5 (skilful) on 12 management related items: daily expenses, debt, future needs, time, savings, use of education loan, purpose of education loan, social interaction, stress, decision making, problem solving and career planning. The data were analyzed by using t-tests and Analyses of Variances (ANOVA) through Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. The scores for the financial management skills were computed and the results revealed there was no gender difference in the score. However, the female students showed a higher level of financial skills than the males. Therefore, there are significant differences in the mean score among ethnic groups, with Indian students scoring the lowest compared to other ethnic group

System Dynamics Model for Financial Management among University Students

Financial management defined as behaviour and perceptions about how financial is managed. Lack of sufficient knowledge on financial management will produce low savings, no budgeting, and failure to service debts on time and make impulsive buys. Low financial knowledge strongly resulted to higher level of debts. It is an urgency for Malaysians to improve their financial knowledge to improve their spending and investment habits especially among young adults. However, good practice of personal finances among students in Malaysia are still low whereby university students are found to have difficulties in managing their financial source. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess university students’ financial management skills. This study determines factors that influence the financial situation and examine consequences of financial situation for university students. Data were collected among university students and system dynamics model was developed using Vensim Software. The results revealed factors that associated with financial situation are financial knowledge and financial skills. The model indicated that the impact on increasing the number of people that fails to manage future need caused by financial knowledge factor, will cause a decline in the number of people that are aware about their financial management, and vice vers