BACKGROUND American Samoa and Samoa are now characterized by one of the world's highest levels of adult overweight and obesity. Our objective was to investigate patterns of menstrual cyclicity reported by Samoan women and examine the relationship to adiposity and select hormone levels. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis was performed among Samoan women, aged 18-39 years (n = 322), using anthr...

OBJECTIVE Salt reduction is one of the most cost-effective interventions for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases, but there are no studies evaluating the effectiveness of national strategies in low or lower middle income countries. This study aimed to examine the effect of an 18-month nation-wide salt reduction strategy in Samoa. METHODS Two nationally representative cross-sectional su...

BACKGROUND Echocardiography has been proposed as a method to screen children for rheumatic heart disease. The World Heart Federation has established guidelines for echocardiographic screening. In this study, we describe a rapid echocardiogram screening protocol according to the World Heart Federation guidelines in Samoa, endemic for rheumatic heart disease. METHODS We performed echocardiogram...

Estimate prevalence of obesity and acanthosis nigricans (AN) among children in United States Affiliated Pacific (USAP) jurisdictions.Cross-sectional measurement of weight, height, and AN in 5775, 2 to 8 years old in 51 communities-Hawai'i, Alaska, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 4 Federated States of Micronesia (...

Derek Freeman’s Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (1983) attacked both the conclusions and methodology of Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). Freeman set out to refute Mead’s interpretation of a peaceful, sexually permissive Samoan society and, equally important, to discredit Mead’s cultural determinism, the assumption that the roots of human behavior...

During specific inventories led by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN, Paris), numerous specimens of Atyidae, particulary Atya-like shrimps were collected in Melanesia (Vanuatu, Solomon Islands) and Polynesia (Futuna, Samoa). These morphologically genetically examined. Our study revealed that some belonged to a new species genus AustralatyaChace, 1983. The aim this paper is describe...

ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank AR – Appraisal Report AusAID – Australian Agency for International Development EIRR – Economic Internal rate of return EPC – Electric Power Corporation of Samoa EU – European Union FEA – Fiji Electricity Authority FIRR – Financial Internal rate of return GDP – Gross domestic product IES – Impact Evaluation Study KAJUR – Kwajalein Atoll Joint Utility Re...