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Asari, Yasushi, Yuichi Koido, Ken Nakamura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, and Muneo Ohta. "Analysis of Medical Needs on Day 7 after the Tsunami Disaster in Papua New Guinea." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 15, no. 2 (June 2000): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00025024.

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AbstractIntroduction:Because of great intervening distances, international medical relief activities in catastrophic, sudden-onset disasters often do not begin until days 5–7 after the precipitating event. The medical needs of those affected and what public health problems exist in the community in the week after the tsunami disaster in Papua New Guinea(PNG) were investigated.Methods:The Japan Medical Team for Disaster Relief (JMTDR) conducted investigative hearings at the District Office responsible for the management of the disaster, the Care Center, and the Hospitals in Aitape, Vanimo, and Wewak in PNG.Results:The numbers of in-patients in the Aitate, Vanimo, and Wewak Hospitals, and in the Care Center in Aitape were 291, >300, 68, and 104, respectively. The exact number of people affected was unknown at the Aitape District Office. There ivas no lack of medical supplies and drugs in the hospital, but the Care Center in Aitape did not have sufficient quantities of antibiotics. No outbreak of communicable disease occurred, despite the presence of risk factors such as the dense concentration of affected people and the constant prevalence of malaria and diarrhea. The water at Wewak General Hospital contained chlorine and was suitable for drinking, but that elsewhere contained bacteria.Conclusions:On about the 7th day after the event, the available information still was incomplete, and it was a time to shift from initial emergency activities to specialized medical care. Although no outbreak of communicable disease actually occurred, there was much anxiety about it because of the risk factors present. For effective medical care at this stage, it is essential to conduct a survey of actual medical needs that also include epidemiological factors.
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Owen, I. L. "Parasitic zoonoses in Papua New Guinea." Journal of Helminthology 79, no. 1 (March 2005): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/joh2004266.

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AbstractRelatively few species of zoonotic parasites have been recorded in humans in Papua New Guinea. A greater number of potentially zoonotic species, mostly nematodes, occur in animals but are yet to be reported from humans. Protozoa is the best represented group of those infecting man, withGiardia duodenalis,Cryptosporidium parvum,Cyclospora cayetanesis,Toxoplasma gondii,Sarcocystisspp.,Entamoeba polecki,Balantidium coliand, possibly,Blastocystis hominis. The only zoonotic helminths infecting humans include the trematodeParagonimus westermani, the cestodesHymenolepis nana,H. diminutaand the sparganum larva ofSpirometra erinacea, and the nematodesTrichinella papuaeandAngiostrongylus cantonensisand, possibly,Ascaris suum. Other groups represented are Acanthocephala (Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus)), insects (Chrysomya bezziana,Cimexsp.,Ctenocephalidesspp.), and mites (Leptotrombidiumspp. and, possiblySarcoptes scabiei, andDemodexsp.). One leech (Phytobdella lineata) may also be considered as being zoonotic. The paucity of zoonotic parasite species can be attributed to long historical isolation of the island of New Guinea and its people, and the absence until recent times of large placental mammals other than pig and dog. Some zoonotic helminths have entered the country with recent importation of domestic animals, in spite of quarantine regulations, and a few more (two cestodes, one nematode and one tick) are poised to enter from neighbouring countries, given the opportunity. Improvement in water supplies, human hygiene and sanitation would reduce the prevalence of many of these parasites, and thorough cooking of meat would lessen the risk of infection by some others.
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Lalonde, André B. "Medical Experience in Papua New-Guinea." Journal SOGC 18, no. 10 (1996): 1039–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0849-5831(16)30721-2.

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Alpers, J. "Papua and New Guinea medical experiences." Internal Medicine Journal 31, no. 5 (July 19, 2001): 304–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1445-5994.2001.00064.x.

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Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V., and David AK Watters. "Neurosurgery in Papua New Guinea." Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2, no. 2 (April 1995): 118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0967-5868(95)90002-0.

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Muirden, Nell. "Palliative Care in Papua New Guinea." Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 17, no. 3-4 (January 2004): 191–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j354v17n03_28.

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Muirden, Nell. "Palliative Care in Papua New Guinea." Journal Of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 17, no. 3 (January 28, 2004): 191–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j354v17n03_28.

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Coghlan, Ben, John Millan, Clement Malau, John Kaldor, and Mike Toole. "The HIV Epidemic in Papua New Guinea." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 58, no. 2 (October 2011): e48-e51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/qai.0b013e3182293417.

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Field, Hume, Carol E. de Jong, Kim Halpin, and Craig S. Smith. "Henipaviruses and Fruit Bats, Papua New Guinea." Emerging Infectious Diseases 19, no. 4 (April 2013): 670–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1904.111912.

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Beracochea, Elvira, Rumona Dickson, Paul Freeman, and Jane Thomason. "Case Management Quality Assessment in Rural Areas of Papua New Guinea." Tropical Doctor 25, no. 2 (April 1995): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004947559502500207.

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A study was carried out to assess the quality of case management of malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoea and acute respiratory tract infections in children in rural primary health services in Papua New Guinea. In particular, the study focused on the knowledge and skills of different categories of rural health workers (HW) in history taking, examination, diagnosis, treatment and patient education. Quality criteria were defined and health centre (HCW) and aidpost workers' (APWs) knowledge and practices were assessed. Primary health workers' (PHW) knowledge of case management was weak, but in all cases better than their actual practice. History taking and examination practices were rudimentary. HWs tended not to make or record diagnoses. Treatment knowledge was often incorrect, with inappropriate or insufficient drugs prescribed, being worst at aidpost level. These findings raise serious questions about the effectiveness of providing health services through small, isolated health units. Far greater attention must now be directed to focus on the institutionalization of problem-based training, continuous supportive supervision and maintenance of clinical skills and provision of essential drugs, supplies and equipment to ensure that rural health workers (RHW) can provide sound care.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Medical supplies Papua New Guinea"

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Spencer, Dora Margaret. "The Early development of the Health Services of Papua New Guinea, 1870-1939 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 1998. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20021209.145943/.

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Keck, Verena. "Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea /." Durham, N.C : Carolina Academic Press, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026872.html.

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Zugl.: Diss. Universität Basel, 1991.
Based on the author's thesis, Universitaet Basel, 1991. Originaltitel: Falsch gehandelt - schwer erkrankt. Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325) and index.
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Oppenheimer, Stephen James. "Iron deficiency and susceptibility to infection : a prospective study of the effects of iron deficiency and iron prophylaxis in infants in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1891d054-1564-47f5-b2e0-b6da5f60e996.

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Investigation of the relationship between iron deficiency, iron supplementation and susceptibility to infection, was suggested by the author's initial observations of an association of anaemia with serious bacterial infections in infancy in Papua New Guinea. The bulk of previous longitudinal clinical intervention studies in infancy showed beneficial effects of iron supplementation. However, defects of control and design and recording in these studies and contradictory anecdotal reports left the question unresolved. A prospective, placebo-controlled, randomised, double-blind trial of iron prophylaxis (3ml intramuscular iron dextran = 150mg Fe) to two month old infants was carried out on the North Coast of Papua New Guinea where there is high transmission of malaria. A literature review, pilot studies, protocol, demography, geography and laboratory methods developed are described. Findings indicate that the placebo control group became relatively iron deficient over the first year of life and that the iron dextran group had adequate, although not excessive iron stores and a higher mean haemoglobin; however, the prevalence and effects of malaria recorded in the field were higher in the iron dextran group. Analysis of field and hospital infectious morbidity in the trial indicated a deleterious association with iron dextran for all causes including respiratory infections (the main single reason for admission). Total duration of hospitalisation was significantly increased in the iron dextran group. Analysis of other factors showed (1) a higher admission rate associated with low weight-for-height recorded at the start of the trial; (2) a significant positive correlation between birth haemoglobin and hospital morbidity rates; (3) increased malaria rates in primiparous mothers of the cohort infants who received iron infusion during pregnancy; (4) lower relative risk of malaria associated with iron prophylaxis in individuals with alpha thalassaemia, which was found to be highly prevalent in this region. In conclusion, it is suggested that policies of iron supplementation, total dose iron injection and routine presumptive iron therapy for anaemia which are widely in practice in malaria endemic areas should be closely reviewed.
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Cato, Denys, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "An examination of the 'all hazards' approach to disaster management as applied to field disaster management and pre-hospital care in Australia." Deakin University. School of Health Sciences, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051017.140738.

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Disasters, emergencies, incidents, and major incidents - they all come back to the same thing regardless of what they are called. The common denominator is that there is loss of life, injury to people and animals and damage and destruction of property. The management of such events relies on four phases: 1. Prevention 2. Preparation 3. Response 4. Recovery Each of these phases is managed in a different way and often by different teams. Here, concentration has been given to phases 2 and 3, with particular emphasis on phase 3, Response. The words used to describe such events are often related to legislation. The terminology is detailed later. However, whatever the description, whenever prevention is not possible, or fails, then the need is to respond. Response is always better when the responders are prepared. Training is a major part of response preparation and this book is designed to assist those in the health industry who need to be ready when something happens. One of the training packages for responders is the Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) Course and this work was designed to supplement the manual prepared by Hodgetts and Macway-Jones(87) in the UK. Included is what the health services responder, who may be sent to an event in which the main concern is trauma, should know. Concentration is on the initial response and does not deal in any detail with hospital reaction, the public health aspects, or the mental health support that provides psychological help to victims and responders, and which are also essential parts of disaster management. People, in times of disaster, have always been quick to offer assistance. It is now well recognised however, that the 'enthusiastic amateur', whilst being a well meaning volunteer, isn't always what is needed. All too often such people have made things worse and have sometimes ended up as victims themselves. There is a place now for volunteers and there probably always will be. The big difference is that these people must be well informed, well trained and well practiced if they are to be effective. Fortunately such people and organisations do exist. Without the work of the St John Ambulance, the State Emergency Service, the Rural Fire Service the Red Cross and the Volunteer Rescue Association, to mention only a few, our response to disasters would be far less effective. There is a strong history of individuals being available to help the community in times of crisis. Mostly these people were volunteers but there has also always been the need for a core of professional support. In the recent past, professional support mechanisms have been developed from lessons learned, particularly to situations that need a rapid and well organised response. As lessons are learned from an analysis of events, philosophy and methods have changed. Our present system is not perfect and perhaps never will be. The need for an 'all-hazards approach' makes detailed planning very difficult and so there will probably always be criticisms about the way an event was handled. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, provided we learn from it. That means that this text is certainly not the 'last word' and revisions as we learn from experience will be inevitable. Because the author works primarily in New South Wales, many of the explanations and examples are specific to that state. In Australia disaster response is a State, rather than a Commonwealth, responsibility and consequently, and inevitably, there are differences in management between the states and territories within Australia. With the influence of Emergency Management Australia, these differences are being reduced. This means that across state and territory boundaries, assistance is common and interstate teams can be deployed and assimilated into the response rapidly, safely, effectively and with minimum explanation. This text sets out to increase the understanding of what is required, what is in place and how the processes of response are managed. By way of introduction and background, examples are given of those situations that have occurred, or could happen. Man Made Disasters has been divided into two distinct sections. Those which are related to structures or transport and those related directly to people. The first section, Chapter 3, includes: • Transport accidents involving land, rail, sea or air vehicles. • Collapse of buildings for reasons other than earthquakes or storms. • Industrial accidents, including the release of hazardous substances and nuclear events. A second section dealing with the consequences of the direct actions of people is separated as Chapter 4, entitled 'People Disasters'. Included are: • Crowd incidents involving sports and entertainment venues. • Terrorism From Chapter 4 on, the emphasis is on the Response phase and deals with organisation and response techniques in detail. Finally there is a section on terminology and abbreviations. An appendix details a typical disaster pack content. War, the greatest of all man made disasters is not considered in this text.
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Manineng, Clement Morris. "Medical circumcision integrated within traditional male initiation ceremonies for HIV prevention in Yangoru-Saussia, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2019. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/65090/1/JCU_65090_Manineng_2019_thesis.pdf.

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Clement Manineng investigated the acceptability and feasibility of integrating medical circumcision within male initiation ceremonies in Yangoru-Saussia, Papua new Guinea. The intervention was acceptable and feasible although there were tensions between cultural and biomedical practices. A culture-oriented model for comprehensive HIV prevention in Yangoru-Saussia is developed from these results.
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Tommbe, Rachael Nick Kamuri. "An investigation of health system capacity to provide medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in high burden settings in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2020. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/69561/8/JCU_69561_Tommbe_2020_thesis.pdf.

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Rachael Tommbe investigated the health systems capacity to provide medical male circumcision in high HIV burden settings in PNG. She found that it is feasible to provide medical male circumcision, with careful planning in governance, financing, health workforce, procurement and information systems to suit local social, cultural and health system needs.
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Kulumbu, Ellen. "Health Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea and Determinants Influencing Health Outcomes: The Case of Women and Health." Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/165911.

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This study aims to uncover the determinants influencing health outcomes and investigates health service delivery in Papua New Guinea (PNG) within the context of women and their health. Despite extensive research on health and health service delivery in PNG over the past three decades, little or no improvement has been made to attain better health outcomes. Various factors which were found to contribute to PNG’s poor health outcomes, include poor financial management and resource allocation, complex institutional structures and challenges following government’s reform policies, lack of capacity, rugged geographical conditions and lack of essential infrastructure. These are mainly provider side factors with experiences of health service users largely understudied. My research adopts qualitative data collection methods, including focus groups discussions, questionnaires, in-depth interviews, observations, body-mapping exercises and illness narratives to understand women and their health service usage, and health workers providing health care. Fieldwork was conducted in three geographically, linguistically, culturally and religiously diverse locations in PNG. Over 100 people participated, including health workers and women. The subsequent data was analysed and showed that women were prevented from using health services by factors existing on user and provider side, such as financial constraints, unfriendly health workers, and long waiting time at health facilities. Their personal values encouraged them to seek health care, such as consideration of familial responsibilities and trust in health workers. Although determinants were similar across the three locations, the degree of influence of the determinants varied in the context of the geographical and socio-economic environments. Medical pluralism exists in PNG with a large number of women using natural therapies and home remedies in rural and urban areas. Informal agencies were influential sources of their health knowledge. Health was narrowly confined to biomedicine and efforts to improve health outcomes handled solely by the health sector. However, health outcomes are not the result of use of biomedical health services alone but result of economic policies, political systems, educational programmes, social and cultural beliefs and practices regarding wellbeing. Thus, health outcomes need not be confined to biomedical disciplines but be a multidisciplinary and multisectoral responsibility, involving formal and informal institutions impacting all determinants and dimensions of people’s health. Intersectoral collaboration between relevant disciplines, sectors and agencies at various levels are suggested in recognition of this. Many factors discussed in this study are likely to be amenable to interventions that are beyond the scope of the health domain. The PNG Department of Health has relatively little influence over many issues affecting individuals providing and using health services. While medical standards and training health workers may be within its scope, improving rural roads to increase access to health services often require assistance from other sectors. Multidisciplinary and multisectoral approaches are needed to address all determinants of health and improve health outcomes. Preventive primary health care through community-based approaches should be the focus. Appropriate methods that adequately capture human phenomena be used in health research. Any service delivery and development studies should include providers and users of services.
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Books on the topic "Medical supplies Papua New Guinea"

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World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Papua New Guinea Health partnerships: Final report. Papua New Guinea: World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region, 2010.

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Beverly, S. Capture section report of tuna fisheries development, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, Coastal Fisheries Programme, 1996.

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Guinea, Papua New. Guidelines for health-care waste management in Papua New Guinea. S.l: s.n., 2010.

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Stephen, Frankel, and Lewis Gilbert, eds. A Continuing trial of treatment: Medical pluralism in Papua New Guinea. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

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Aia, Paul. Country status report of National TB Program: Papua New Guinea, 1997-2005. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: National TB Program Unit, Disease Control Branch, National Dept. of Health, 2006.

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Aia, Paul. Country status report of National TB Program: Papua New Guinea, 1997-2005. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: National TB Program Unit, Disease Control Branch, National Dept. of Health, 2006.

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Mill, Operators' Conference (6th 1997 Madang Papua New Guinea). Sixth Mill Operators' Conference, 6-8 October 1997, Madang, Papua New Guinea. Carlton: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1997.

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Kathleen, Dugan, and Marshall Leslie B, eds. Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Betel-chewing equipment of East New Guinea. Aylesbury, bucks, UK: Shire, 1988.

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Out of place: Madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Medical supplies Papua New Guinea"

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Freckelton AO QC, Ian. "Medical Negligence Law in Papua New Guinea." In Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 195–205. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4855-7_12.

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"Medical education." In Public Health in Papua New Guinea, 53–57. Cambridge University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511563447.008.

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"Early colonial medical administration." In Public Health in Papua New Guinea, 25–32. Cambridge University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511563447.005.

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"Army doctors’ struggle with medical crises and self-discipline." In Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350139039.ch-003.

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Denoon, Donald. "Medical care and gender in Papua New Guinea." In Family and Gender in the Pacific, 95–107. Cambridge University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139084864.006.

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"Northern Territory, and possibly parts of the Pilbara, have been ‘seeded’ with virus which could result in epizootic activity when appropriate environmental conditions occur. Our conclusions could have important health implications as the population in north-western Australia increases through intensive agriculture, mining, service industries and tourism and, in the longer term, through possible effects of climate change (Mackenzie et al. 1993b; Lindsay and Mackenzie 1997). Furthermore, increased virus activity could be exacerbated as new irrigation areas are developed in the Wyndham–East Kimberley shire and the adjacent part of the Northern Territory. Finally, there is little doubt that the profound ecological changes resulting from the establishment of the Ord River irrigation area have provided ideal conditions for increased arboviral activity. These conditions are also suitable for other exotic arboviruses, such as Japanese encephalitis and chikungunya viruses, and exotic mosquito vectors, such as Aedes albopictus. Indeed an unusual strain of MVE has been isolated from the Ord River area, which was believed to have been introduced from the Indonesian archipelago (Mackenzie et al. 1991). Further-more, the recent incursion of Japanese encephalitis virus into islands in the Torres Strait and Cape York, and its possible enzootic presence in the south of Papua New Guinea, provide additional cause for concern. It is therefore essential that monitoring and surveillance of mosquitoes and arboviruses is continued so that exotic virus or vector incursions can be rapidly detected. Acknowledgments We would like to thank our many colleagues who have contributed to these studies of MVE virus activity in the north-west of Western Australia. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Health Department of Western Australia and the National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Commonwealth Department of Health. References." In Water Resources, 137–39. CRC Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203027851-28.

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Conference papers on the topic "Medical supplies Papua New Guinea"

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Xie, Huling, Yuchao Hu, Alexander Anderson, Xuesong Wu, Jinjia Wei, Gaoming Zhang, and Xiaohui Zhang. "An Innovative Concentrating Photovoltaic Thermal System for Rural Electrification and Water Supply An Evaluation of Performance, Off-Grid Applications, and Cost Competitiveness for a Community Microgrid and Medical Clinic in Rural Papua New Guinea." In 2018 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ghtc.2018.8601581.

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Morgan, Charles L. "The Status of Marine Mining Worldwide." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-80048.

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Metals are fundamental components of modern society worldwide, and, despite the current economic downturn, we know we will be faced with ever increasing demands and ever-shrinking supplies. Efforts to achieve sustainable supplies of minerals must include efforts to expand the supply. About 60% of the ocean surface consists of the ocean floor, so it is reasonable to expect that deep ocean minerals could contribute significantly to the world supply. Human efforts to recover minerals have thus far concentrated almost exclusively on land-based resources, so it is reasonable to postulate that marine minerals might offer better prospects for future mineral supplies than land prospects. Currently, we know of at least six separate categories of marine minerals: 1. Aggegrate sand and gravel deposits; 2. Placer deposits of relatively high value minerals (gold, diamonds, tin, etc) hosted in aggegrates; 3. Biogenically derived phosphate deposits; 4. Sediment-hosted (manganese nodules) and hard-rock hosted (ferromanganese crusts) ferromanganese oxide deposits; 5. Sediment-hosted methane hydrate deposits; and 6. Hydrothermally derived sulfide deposits of copper, gold, nickel, zinc, and other metals. Thanks primarily to the engineering developments made by the offshore oil industry and the computer-science advances that have revolutionized much of modern society, the technology is in place for most of the tasks of deep seabed mining. The objective here is not to provide a general status update regarding marine minerals technology, but simply to demonstrate, using the best example available to date (the Nautilus Minerals venture in the Territorial Waters of Papua New Guinea) that the technology is in place and ready to go. Development of marine minerals has both the curse and blessing of taking place in the ocean. Since the 1970’s and before, the marine environment has taken on a public aura reserved more commonly for religious beliefs. This aura poses substantial obstacles to any marine development efforts. At the same time, a basic advantage of marine mineral developments is that nobody lives there. Thus, marine mining activities will not conflict with most normal human activities. Marine mining proposals should be subjected to thorough impact assessment analysis, but it is also critical that policymakers take steps to provide a level playing field for marine developments that encourages objective comparisons with alternative land-based proposals for supplying needed mineral resources. Governments should foster reasonable access to the marine mineral resources under their jurisdiction while also supporting incentive policies and related research programs.
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