Understanding women experiences and decision making in choosing birthplace

Understanding consumer behaviour pertaining to healthcare consumption is vital in assessing and improving the service quality. Maternity care is one the largest division that most of the healthcare provider holds within the community of healthcare market and childbirth is most common reported cases. Choosing the ideal birthplace is one of the pivotal decision in childbirth process and the decision made are influences by different attributes. Understanding women’s experiences during the childbirth process provide useful insights on how experiences influence the decision made. Intense competition and lucrative industry required healthcare provider to further understand the consumer need and demand as well focusing more towards customer-centred strategy.Purpose of this article is to discuss and review the relevant literature regarding the childbirth experiences and birthplace choice phenomenon from the lenses of consumer

Effect of Renewable Energy Consumption on Environmental Degradation in ASEAN Countries

This study focused on estimating the long-run and short-run relationship of dross domestic savings, development of the industrial sector, and renewable energy consumption towards the environmental degradation in Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries. We conducted the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation techniques developed by Pesaran et al.(1999). The results highlighted that all the variables present significant environmental degradation while using renewable energy has abolished environmental pollution in ASEAN countries. Therefore, policymakers must take action to design sustainable economic development mechanisms and convert industrial investments to environmentally friendly projects to improve green technology

User-Generated-Content and Millennial Moms' Birthplace Decision-Making Process

Consumer reviews and experiences on UGC platforms are interoperable decision-making sources. Revolutionized UGC communication platform has changed millennial moms' birthplace decision-making process. They are rising concerns that UGC may lead to unsafe birth practices and risk the safety of the mother and baby. This preliminary qualitative study objective focused on exploring how other birth experiences shared over the UGC platform influence millennial moms' birthplace decisions. Preliminary findings identified two themes: verification and ratification and visibility and trustworthiness. The study provides in-depth information that aids policymakers, service providers, and marketers in understanding the millennial birthplace decision-making process from the consumers' perspective.                                                                                                          Keywords: user-generated-content; decision-making process; experience; information search eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i22.415

Environmental Tax – Economic Growth Nexus in ASEAN-4 Countries

In the modern world, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and economic growth are concerns for all nations that want to continue expanding by striking a balance between energy and carbon emissions. One reason for this is that these fuels will cause global warming due to climate change. Environmental taxes are increasingly seen as a crucial component of economic policy, where a well-constructed tax can encourage innovation and economic incentives. The nexus of the economic growth and environment is now becoming one of the essential relations for policymakers. Nevertheless, most of the previous studies are limited to European countries. Thus, this research investigates the cointegration of Environmental Tax (ET) towards Economic Growth (EG) with Interest Rate (IR) as a control variable for the case of selected ASEAN countries, namely Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The yearly data set covering the period from 2014 to 2021 was utilized as the sample period for the panel autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) approaches. Results revealed that both the Environmental Tax and Interest Rate have a long-run negative effect on Economic growth but have a positive influence in the short run. From this finding, the implication of environmental tax toward economic growth also may depend on the economic conditions of an economy

User-Generated-Content and Millennial Moms' Birthplace Decision-Making Process : User-Generated-Content and Millennial Moms' Birthplace Decision-Making Process

Consumer reviews and experiences on UGC platforms are interoperable decision-making sources. Revolutionized UGC communication platform aided millennial moms' birthplace decision-making process. Despite that, they are rising concerns that UGC may lead to unsafe birth practices. Falsify viral sharing over UGC may risk the safety of the mother and baby. There is limited research on birthplace decisions from the consumer's perspective. In addressing this matter, this study examines how other birth experiences shared over the UGC platform influence millennial moms' birthplace decisions. The study provides in-depth information that aids policymakers, service providers, and marketers in understanding the consumer birthplace decision-making process. Keywords: user-generated-content; decision-making process; experience; information search eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI

Abstracts of the International Halal Science Conference 2023

This book presents the extended abstracts of the selected contributions to the International Halal Science Conference, held on 22-23 August 2023 by the International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART), IIUM, Malaysia in collaboration with Halalan Thayyiban Research Centre, University Islam Sultan Sharif (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam. With the increasing global interest in halal products and services, this conference is timely. Conference Title:  International Halal Science ConferenceConference Acronym: IHASC23Conference Theme: Halal Industry Sustainability Through ScienceConference Date: 22-23 August 2023Conference Venue: International Islamic University (IIUM), MalaysiaConference Organizer: International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART), International Islamic University (IIUM), Malaysi