It is claimed that improving the education of women may be the most efficient way for Melanesian countries to attain economic development goals but the necessary empirical evidence has been lacking. This paper uses nationally representative household survey data to compare the effect of mother’s and father’s education on the risk of child stunting. Stunting is the major nutritional problem is P...

Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) is the major biologically active form of thiamine (vitamin B1). This cross-sectional study assessed whole-blood thiamine pyrophosphate concentration (WBTPPC) in boarding school students in the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea. Sample size for each of the five boarding schools was calculated using the 'proportionate to population size' cluster sampling technique. ...

WPSAR Vol 4, No 3, 2013 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.2.002 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a World Health Organization, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. b Pathology Department, Port Moresby General Hospital, Papua New Guinea. c National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Submitted: 10 April 2013; Published: 2 September 2013 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.2.002 Cholera is an acute infectiou...

The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea is a globally distributed, semi-sessile, planktonically dispersed scyphomedusa. Cassiopea occurs in shallow, tropical inshore marine waters on sandy mudflats and is generally associated with mangrove-dominated habitats. Controversy over the taxonomy of upside-down jellyfishes precedes their introduction to the Hawaiian Islands during the Second World War, and...

Surveys for anopheline mosquitoes were conducted throughout the mainland of Papua New Guinea from 1992 to 1998 with the aim of mapping the distribution of the anopheline fauna. Larval collections, adult trap, and human landing collections indicated the presence of seven species (other than those belonging to the Anopheles punctulatus group); these were An. bancroftii, An. annulipes, An, karwari...

Twenty-five species of leucosiid crabs are reported from Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Of these, seven are new to science: two each are included in Alox Tan & Ng, 1995 and Tanaoa Galil, 2003, and one each in Ryphila Galil, 2009, Seulocia Galil, 2005, and Urnalana Galil, 2005. Fifteen additional species are new records for Papua New Guinea: Alox rugosum (Stimpson, 1858), Ancylodactyla nana ...

WPSAR Vol 3, No 3, 2012 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2012.3.2.006 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a Human Resources for Health Knowledge Hub, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. b School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Submitted: 1 May 2012; Publish...

Several drugs, including isonicotinyl hydrazide (isoniazid), diamino diphenyl sulphone (dapsone), hydralazine, and some sulphonamides, are metabolised by the liver enzyme acetyl transferase. There is individual variation in the rate at which acetylation occurs and two phenotypes, rapid and slow, are usually recognised, which show an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. The rapid phenotype in...

In Papua New Guinea the bottle-feeding of babies has been increasing, predominantly among unemployed women of low educational status. Many women are unaware of their legal right to have breaks at work for the purpose of breastfeeding, and a high proportion of workplaces have no facilities for mothers who wish to breastfeed their children. The laws on the feeding of infants should be updated and...

human respiratory syncytial viruses of subgroups A and B: extensive sequence divergence between antigenically related proteins. et al. New genotypes within respiratory syncytial virus group B genotype BA in Niigata, Japan. Circulation patterns of genetically distinct group A and B strains of human respiratory syncytial virus in a community. al. Major changes in the G protein of human respirator...