Pacific Islands

"Pacific Islands" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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 ID

D010139

MeSH Number(s)

Z01.678.100.873

Z01.782

Concept/Terms

Pacific Islands

Micronesia-Polynesia

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Geographicals [Z]
Geographic Locations [Z01]
Oceania [Z01.678]
Australasia [Z01.678.100]
Pacific Islands [Z01.678.100.873]
Pacific Islands [Z01.782]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pacific Islands" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pacific Islands" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 28 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007 and 2013

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Year	Minor Topic	Total
1997	2	2
1999	1	1
2002	1	1
2003	2	2
2006	1	1
2007	3	3
2008	2	2
2009	2	2
2011	1	1
2013	3	3
2014	2	2
2015	2	2
2016	2	2
2017	2	2
2018	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Pacific Islands" by people in Profiles.

The prevalence of soil transmitted helminth infections in minority indigenous populations of South-East Asia and the Western Pacific Region: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 11; 15(11):e0009890.

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Guidelines for Complementary Feeding of Infants in the Asia Pacific Region: APACPH Public Health Nutrition Group. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2020 05; 32(4):179-187.

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Current Crises and Potential Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges Facing Global Health or Global Public Health by a Different Name. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2019 Dec; 34(6):653-667.

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Neighborhood social cohesion and sleep outcomes in the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey. Sleep. 2018 09 01; 41(9).

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Re-emergence of thiamine deficiency disease in the Pacific islands (2014-15): A case-control study. PLoS One. 2018; 13(6):e0198590.

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Social mixing in Fiji: Who-eats-with-whom contact patterns and the implications of age and ethnic heterogeneity for disease dynamics in the Pacific Islands. PLoS One. 2017; 12(12):e0186911.

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Lessons learnt from a three-year pilot field epidemiology training programme. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2017 Jul-Sep; 8(3):21-26.

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An assessment of national surveillance systems for malaria elimination in the Asia Pacific. Malar J. 2017 03 21; 16(1):127.

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Updates in the epidemiology of eating disorders in Asia and the Pacific. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2016 11; 29(6):354-62.

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Early warning epidemic surveillance in the Pacific island nations: an evaluation of the Pacific syndromic surveillance system. Trop Med Int Health. 2016 07; 21(7):917-27.

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