Pacific Islands
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Small islands and pandemic influenza: potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure.

27 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Some island nations have explicit components of their influenza pandemic plans for providing travel warnings and restricting incoming travellers. But the potential value of such restrictions has not been quantified. METHODS: We developed ... Read more...

Leptospirosis in the Asia Pacific region.

2 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic infection that has been recognized for decades, but the problem of the disease has not been fully addressed, particularly in resource-poor, developing countries, where the major burden of the disease ... Read more...

Health technology assessment in the Asia Pacific region.

16 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVES: Although health technology assessment (HTA) has been well established in all developed countries, it has not found a firm footing in many developing countries. This is especially true of the Asia Pacific region, which has much of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pacific Islands'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• WHO's Western Pacific region agrees tobacco-control plan. 8 Oct 2009
• Medical relief efforts in Sumatra and Pacific islands are stepped up. 4 Oct 2009
• Against the tide of change: diet and health in the Pacific islands. 29 Sep 2009
• Small islands and pandemic influenza: potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure. 27 Sep 2009
• Leptospirosis in the Asia Pacific region. 2 Sep 2009
• Vector-borne disease prevention: the need for a joint South Pacific approach. 22 Jul 2009
• Progress towards the 2012 measles elimination goal in WHO's Western Pacific Region, 1990-2008. Jul 2009
• Developing neuropathic pain treatment guidelines for Asia Pacific. 29 Jun 2009
• Health technology assessment in the Asia Pacific region. 16 Jun 2009
• The culture, community, and science of type 2 diabetes prevention in the US Associated Pacific Islands. 13 Jun 2009
• A nationwide molecular epidemiological study on hepatitis B virus in Indonesia: identification of two novel subgenotypes, B8 and C7. 3 Jun 2009
• Melanoma in Maori, Asian, and Pacific peoples in New Zealand. 30 May 2009
• Ethnic differences in time trends in asthma prevalence in New Zealand: ISAAC Phases I and III. 30 May 2009
• Consensus statement on the management of invasive candidiasis in Intensive Care Units in the Asia-Pacific Region. 3 May 2009
• Japanese encephalitis: defining risk incidence for travelers to endemic countries and vaccine prescribing from the UK and Switzerland. 29 Apr 2009
• The diameter of the nasolacrimal canal measured by computed tomography: gender and racial differences. 29 Apr 2009
• Using multiple frames in health surveys. 29 Apr 2009
• Spread and evolution of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance. 21 Apr 2009
• Enantiomeric signatures of organochlorine pesticides in Asian, trans-Pacific, and western U.S. air masses. 13 Apr 2009
• Kava hepatotoxicity: comparison of aqueous, ethanolic, acetonic kava extracts and kava-herbs mixtures. 3 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Pacific Islands'

Definition: The islands of the Pacific Ocean divided into MICRONESIA; MELANESIA; and POLYNESIA (including NEW ZEALAND). The collective name Oceania includes the aforenamed islands, adding AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; and the Malay Archipelago (INDONESIA). (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p910, 880)

Descriptor UI: D010139

Alternative terms: Pacific Islands; Micronesia-Polynesia;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; epidemiology;

Tree Number: Z01.678.100.873; Z01.782;

Online Note: use PACIFIC ISLANDS to search SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS 1967-77

History Note: 78; was SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS 1967-77

Technical Notes: includes MELANESIA; MICRONESIA & POLYNESIA: see notes under each & indentions in trees