Pacific Health Surveillance and Response
Volume 12. Number 2. September 2005
ISSN 1015-7867
This issue
has been coordinated and sponsored by the Public Health Surveillance & Communicable Disease Control Section, Public Health Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, with the support of NZAID and France via the PREPARE project.
This issue:
Editors Tom Kierdrzynski and Narendra Singh, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea, New Caledonia. Sitaleki A. Finau, School of Public Health and Primary Care, Fiji School of Medicine, Fiji
Editorial Assistance Christelle Lepers, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, Setita Naqelevuki, Pacific Health Research Council, Suva, Fiji.
Financial Assistance Secretariat of the Pacific Community with the support of NZAID and France through the PREPARE project. We are grateful for their support.
Pacific Health Dialog
is published twice a year and is supported by the Pacific Health Unit, University of Auckland; the Fiji School of Medicine (FSMed); the Pacific Basin Medical Association (PBMA); the Micronesian Human Resource Center (MHRDC); Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA); and the Pacific Health Research Council (PHRC). The views and opinions expressed in PHD do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial staff, Advisory Board or their support organisations.
PHD Team:
Primary Editor Sitaleki A. Finau, MBBS, D. ComH
Associate Editors Rex Hunton, MBChB, FRACP, Greg J. Dever, MD, FAAP, Annette Sachs–Robertson, PhD, MPH, DSM
FSM Editor Jan Pryor
PHD websites:
http://www.pacifichealthdialog.org.fj/
Contents
Guest editorial
Tom Kiedrzynski
Original papers
Disease surveillance during the VII South Pacific Mini Games, Palau 2005 – Lessons learnt
Karen Carter, Jennifer Chan, Stevenson Kuartei, Julie Alvarez
Risk factors for cholera in Pohnpei during an outbreak in 2000: Lessons for Pacific Countries and Territories
Martyn D Kirk, Tom Kiedrzynski, Eliaser Johnson, Amato Elymore, Iris Wainiqolo…
Twenty years of HIV surveillance in the Pacific – what do the data tell us and what do we still need to know?
Tim Sladden
Dengue fever larval control in New Caledonia: assessment of a door-to-door health educators program
Martine Noel
Arboviruses and their Vectors in the Pacific – Status Report
Laurent Guillaumot
Laboratory-based Salmonella surveillance in Fiji, 2004-2005
John Dunn, Jan Pryor, Salanieta Saketa, Wasale Delai, Eka Buadromo, Kamal Kishore, Shakila Naidu, Sharon Greene, Jay Varma, Tom Chiller
Curbing the tide – Non-communicable disease in the Pacific
Tony Lower, Bootii Nauan, Myriam Abel, Malakai Ake, Viliami Puloka, Kabwea Tiban
Nutrient Analysis of the Guamanian Diet: Acceptable Energy Distribution with Inadequate Nutrient Quality
Rebecca S. Pobocik, Nancy S. Boudreau
An NGO approach for addressing the nutrition dilemma: Pohnpei focuses on awareness, food analysis, conservation and food processing
Lois Englberber, Adelino Lorens, Bill Raynor, Amy Levendusky, Yumiko Paul, Weilsihter Hagilmai, Jim Currie, Penny Weilbacher, Rufino Mauricio, Eliuel Pretrick, Willy Kostka, Ellen Ehsa, Robert Andreas, Wehns Billen
The Kura Files: Qualitative Social Survey
Madhukar Pande, Mani Naiker, Graham Mills, Narendra Singh, Tevita Voro
Case reports and short communications
Trial of email reporting for the Hospital Based Active Surveillance System in the Pacific
Richard Duncan
An Outbreak of Dengue Fever in Yap State
Mark A Durand, Martin Bel, Ignathia Ruwey, Maria Marfel, Laurence Yug, Victor Ngaden
Review papers
Type 2 diabetes in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii
Jill K. Furubayashi, Mele A. Look
Dengue in the Pacific – an update of the current situation
Narendra Singh, Tom Kiedrzynski, Christelle Lepers, Elise Kamisan Benyon
Viewpoints and perspectives
Disease surveillance in Guam: a historical perspective
Robert L. Haddock
Foodborne disease surveillance in the Pacific: perspectives for the future
Tom Chiller, Hannah Yang, Nu’ualofa Tu’u’au-Potoi, Michael O’Leary, Benoit Garin,
Narendra Singh, Theodora Magno, John Dunn, Tony Hazzard, Jan Pryor
Implementing the New International Health Regulations in the Pacific — Challenges and Opportunities
Hitoshi Oshitani, Li Ailan. Maria Concepcion Roces, Dato’ Tee Ah Sian, Chen Ken, Tom Kiedrzynski
Beyond mad, bad and sad: A case for considering community mental health and the
means to assess it
Roland F. Schultz
Health Care Plans and Dust Collection in the Pacific
Stevenson Kuartei
Conference reports
Report on a Workshop on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Measles
Jennie Leydon, Shannon Curley, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Vicki Stambos, Heath Kelly
Book reviews
Spatial and Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health
Narendra Singh
SARS: How a global epidemic was stopped
Narendra Singh
Public Health surveillance in the Pacific
Christelle Lepers
Abstracts
Abstracts and references
Tom Kiedrzynski
PHD Matters
From Editorial Assistant
Setita Naqelevuki
From Editor
Sitaleki A Finau