Overseas Medical Referral: the health system challenges for Pacific Island Countries

Solid Waste Management Challenges in Pacific Island Countries

Health care financing and health outcomes in Pacific Island countries.

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between per capita public health expenditure and three measures of health outcomes (infant and under-five mortality rates and crude death rates) using cross-country data from seven Pacific Island countries for selected years between 1990 and 2002. The results of the fixed-effects estimation procedure, correcting for AR(1) errors, provid...

Health Research Systems in Six Pacific Island Countries and Territories

Alec J. Ekeroma1*, Sharon Biribo2, Josephine Herman3, Andrew Hill4 and Tim Kenealy4 *1Pacific Women’s Health Research Unit, South Auckland Clinical Campus, University of Auckland, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 2Acting Director Research, Research Unit, Office of the Dean, College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji 3Epidemiology and Biostatis...

Globalization, food and health in Pacific Island countries.

Pacific Island countries (PICs) are experiencing an epidemic of obesity and consequent chronic diseases. Despite investment in the development of National Plans of Action for Nutrition (NPANs) and interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity, nutritional status appears to show little improvement. This paper presents a synthesis of the findings from two research papers that were...

The Pacific Island Health Care Project

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND US Associated/Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) include three freely associated states: Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and three Territories: American Samoa, Guam, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. OBJECTIVE The Pacific Island Health Care Project (PIHCP) provides humanitarian medical referral/consultation/care to >500,000 indi...