"Vanuatu" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A republic consisting of an island group in Melanesia, in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Port-Vila. It was called New Hebrides until 1980. It was discovered in 1606 by the Portuguese, forgotten for 160 years, then visited by Bougainville in 1768 and Captain Cook in 1774. It was under joint British and French administration from 1906 until it became independent in 1980 under the name of Vanuatu. The name is native, meaning our land. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p833 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p570)
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vanuatu" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Vanuatu" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Vanuatu" by people in Profiles.
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Association of Early Nutritional Status With Child Development in the Asia Pacific Region. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 12 01; 4(12):e2139543.
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Three Phases of Ancient Migration Shaped the Ancestry of Human Populations in Vanuatu. Curr Biol. 2020 12 21; 30(24):4846-4856.e6.
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Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific. Nature. 2016 Oct 27; 538(7626):510-513.
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Local perceptions of changes in traditional ecological knowledge: a case study from Malekula island, Vanuatu. Ambio. 2014 Apr; 43(3):288-96.
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A high-resolution geospatial surveillance-response system for malaria elimination in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Malar J. 2013 Mar 21; 12:108.
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Modern geographical reconnaissance of target populations in malaria elimination zones. Malar J. 2010 Oct 20; 9:289.
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Ivermectin is better than benzyl benzoate for childhood scabies in developing countries. J Paediatr Child Health. 2002 Aug; 38(4):401-4.