Item 169 - Medical History of Papua New Guinea - various articles on Pacific Islands epidemiology

Includes articles and extracts on Pacific Islands epidemiology: Paul Zimmet and Sunny Whitehouse, "Pacific Islands of Nauru, Tuvalu and Western Samoa", chapter 15 of "Western Disease - their emergence and prevention" by Trowell, H. and Burke, H.D., Edward Arnold, London; Paul Zimmet, “Epidemiology of Diabetes and Its Macrovascular Manifestations in Pacific Populations: The Medical Effects of Social Progress”, Diabetes Care Vol. 2, No. 2, March-April 1979; P. Zimmet, S. Faaiuso, J. Ainuu, S. Whitehouse, B. Milne, and W. DeBoer, “The Prevalence of Diabetes in the Rural and Urban Polynesian Population of Western Samoa”, Diabetes, Vol. 30, January 1981; Julie Wicking, Helen Ringrose, Sunny Whitehouse and Paul Zimmet, “Nutrient Intake in a Partly Westernized Isolated Polynesian Population: The Funafuti Survey”, Diabetes Care, Vol. 4, No. 1, January-February 1981; B. Boettcher, G.H. Voss and Judith Hay, “The Rh Antigens of Anthropoid Apes in Relation to Rh “Deletion” Phenotypes”, American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol, 17, No. 4 (July) 1965; Paul Zimmet, Alesana Seluka, James Collins, Philip Currie, Julie Wicking and William DeBoer, “Diabetes Mellitus in an Urbanized, Isolated Polynesian Population, The Funafuti Survey”, Diabetes, December 1977; Paul Zimmet, Richard Taylor, Livia Jackson, S.L. Whitehouse, S. Faaivaso and J. Ainuu”, Medical Journal of Australia, 1980; P. Zimmet, M. Arblaster and K. Thoma, “The Effect of Westernization on Native Populations. Studies on a Micronesian Community with a High Diabetes Prevalence”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 1978; Paul Zimmet, “Paradise Lost? Aspects of Epidemiology of Diabetes in South Pacific Populations”, International Diabetes Federation Bulletin, May 1978.