Prioritizing forest management actions to benefit marine habitats in data-poor regions
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PMID:34115408 | DOI:10.1111/cobi.13792 (Source: Conservation Biology)
Source: Conservation Biology - June 11, 2021 Category: Biology Authors: Jade M S Delevaux Kostantinos A Stamoulis Source Type: research
Prioritizing forest management actions to benefit marine habitats in data-poor regions
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PMID:34115408 | DOI:10.1111/cobi.13792 (Source: Conservation Biology)
Source: Conservation Biology - June 11, 2021 Category: Biology Authors: Jade M S Delevaux Kostantinos A Stamoulis Source Type: research
A qualitative study of patient perspectives of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy services in Vanuatu
CONCLUSION: This study described patients' experiences of their diabetic care and identified key barriers and facilitators of service delivery pathways. SO WHAT?: Vanuatu needs to expand nationwide health promotion and education programmes on nutrition and exercise, food insecurity and access through trade agreements, and provide well-trained nursing and medical specialists for early diagnosis and adequate management of diabetes that all people can access and afford.PMID:33743544 | DOI:10.1002/hpja.484 (Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia)
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - March 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Malakai 'Ofanoa Basil Aitip Komal Ram Prarthana Dalmia Moneeta Pal Vili Nosa Felicity Goodyear-Smith Source Type: research
Human Migrations: Tales of the Pacific.
Abstract
The mode and tempo of human dispersal to the far-flung Pacific Islands has been a source of fascination for centuries. New ancient DNA data from the archipelago of Vanuatu shed light on the ancient migrations that shaped the history of human settlement in the Pacific.
PMID: 33352129 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Current Biology)
Source: Current Biology - December 21, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Friedlaender JS, Tucci S Tags: Curr Biol Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 8412: Factors Associated with Smoking and Drinking among Early Adolescents in Vanuatu: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adolescents and Their Parents
azawa
This cross-sectional study determined whether various factors, such as parental behavior, attitude, and knowledge and sibling and peer behaviors, were associated with smoking and drinking among early adolescents in the Republic of Vanuatu. For this purpose, logistic regression analysis was used to determine the relative importance of the factors as well as the influences of the parents/guardians, siblings, and peers. The participants consisted of 157 seventh- and eighth-grade adolescents (mean age = 13.3 years; 52.2% girls), including their parents/guardians, from three public schools in Vanuatu. According to the...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - November 13, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Emi Nakaseko Sayaka Kotera Minato Nakazawa Tags: Article Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 7351: Relationships between Prenatal Distress and Infant Body Mass Index in the First Year of Life in a Lower-Middle Income Country
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Kelsey N. Dancause
Prenatal stress affects body composition in childhood and later in life. However, few studies assess body composition in infancy. Furthermore, most are in high-income countries and do not consider interactive or curvilinear relationships. We assessed distress and diet during pregnancy via questionnaires among 310 women in Vanuatu, a lower-middle income country. We measured body mass index (BMI) among 54 infants at 4–12 months of age. We analyzed interactive relationships between prenatal distress and diet with BMI Z-scores, and curvilinear relationships between distress and BMI Z-s...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - October 8, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ann-Sophie Therrien Giovanna Buffa Amanda B. Roome Elizabeth Standard Alysa Pomer Jimmy Obed George Taleo Len Tarivonda Chim W. Chan Akira Kaneko Kathryn M. Olszowy Kelsey N. Dancause Tags: Article Source Type: research
Medical pluralism, sorcery belief and health seeking in Vanuatu: a quantitative and descriptive study
SummarySet in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, this study explores the relationship between cultural knowledge and beliefs concerning illness and health-seeking behaviour within the context of medical pluralism. Concentrating on the nation ’s high rates of diabetes and non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors, this research analyses the way in which understandings of disease aetiology and healing efficacy impact upon treatment-related decisions. Data were obtained through a mixed-methods community survey of 313 adult respondents developed in collaboration with ni-Vanuatu health experts, community leaders and survey enumerator...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Scale-Dependent Influences of Distance and Vegetation on the Composition of Aboveground and Belowground Tropical Fungal Communities.
In this study, we investigate the spatial relationship of trees and fungi at a community level. We characterized the spatial dynamics for above- and belowground fungi using a series of forest monitoring plots, at nested spatial scales, located in the tropical South Pacific, in Vanuatu. Fungal communities from different habitats were sampled using metagenomic analysis of the nuclear ribosomal ITS1 region. Fungal communities exhibited strong distance-decay of similarity across our entire sampling range (3-110,000 m) and also at small spatial scales (< 50 m). Unexpectedly, this pattern was inverted at an intermediate ...
Source: Microbial Ecology - October 6, 2020 Category: Microbiology Authors: Boraks A, Plunkett GM, Doro TM, Alo F, Sam C, Tuiwawa M, Ticktin T, Amend AS Tags: Microb Ecol Source Type: research
Cultural Variation in the Development of Beliefs About Conservation.
This study examined conservation beliefs in a Western industrialized (Austin, Texas, USA) and a non-Western, subsistence agricultural community (Tanna, Vanuatu) among children, adolescents, and adults (N = 171; n = 58 7-12-year-olds, n = 53 13-17-year-olds, and n = 60 18-68-year-olds). Participants endorsed or rejected four types of justifications for engaging in land and animal conservation: sustainability, moral, religious, or permissible. In both populations, participants endorsed sustainability justifications most frequently. Religious justifications increased with age in Tanna and decreased with age in Austin....
Source: Cognitive Science - October 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Busch JTA, Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH Tags: Cogn Sci Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1081: Molecular Characterization of Dengue Type 2 Outbreak in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, 2017 –2020
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1081: Molecular Characterization of Dengue Type 2 Outbreak in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, 2017–2020
Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101081
Authors:
Catherine Inizan
Olivia O’Connor
George Worwor
Talica Cabemaiwai
Jean-Claude Grignon
Dominique Girault
Marine Minier
Matthieu Prot
Valentine Ballan
George Junior Pakoa
Jean-Paul Grangeon
Philippe Guyant
Christelle Lepers
Daniel Faktaufon
Aalisha Sahukhan
Onofre Edwin Merilles
Ann-Claire Gourinat
Etienne Simon-Lorière
Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol
Dengue virus (DENV) serotype-2 was detected in the South ...
Source: Viruses - September 24, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Catherine Inizan Olivia O ’Connor George Worwor Talica Cabemaiwai Jean-Claude Grignon Dominique Girault Marine Minier Matthieu Prot Valentine Ballan George Junior Pakoa Jean-Paul Grangeon Philippe Guyant Christelle Lepers Daniel Faktaufon Aalisha Sahukh Tags: Communication Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 6806: Clustering of Poor Dietary Habits among Adolescents Aged 12 to 15 Years in 52 Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
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Very few studies have reported the co-occurrence of poor dietary habits. We thus aimed to estimate the co-occurrence of poor dietary habits in adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Data were obtained from the Global School-Based Student Health Surveys (GSHS) from 2009 to 2017. The suboptimal dietary factors included fast food consumption, carbonated soft drink consumption, and low fruit and vegetable intake, which were assessed with a questionnaire survey. We calculated the corresponding country-specific prevalence with the number of suboptimal dietary factors. We also calculated pooled est...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 17, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hui Fan Xingyu Zhang Tags: Article Source Type: research
Population genomics of two invasive mosquitoes ( < i > Aedes aegypti < /i > and < i > Aedes albopictus < /i > ) from the Indo-Pacific
This study analyses the population genomics of 480 of these mosquitoes sampled from 27 locations in the Indo-Pacific. We investigated patterns of genome-wide genetic differentiation to compare pathways of invasion and ongoing gene flow in both species, and to compare invasive and native-range populations ofAe.albopictus. We also tested landscape genomic hypotheses that genetic differentiation would increase with geographical distance and be lower between locations with high connectivity to human transportation routes, the primary means of dispersal at these scales. We found that genetic distances were generally higher inAe...
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - July 16, 2020 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Thomas L. Schmidt Source Type: research
Child undernutrition in households with microbiologically safer drinking water and 'improved water' in Tanna, Vanuatu.
Authors: Morrison AL, Lewthwaite H, Houghton LA, Nasak DSJ, Sharples KJ, Brown P, Crump JA, Jack SJ
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goal drinking water indicators include microbiological safety measures, whereas the Millennium Development Goal indicator 'improved water' may be microbiologically unsafe. In rural Vanuatu, we undertook household surveys, child anthropometry, and tested stored drinking water, to investigate relationships between water and undernutrition. Using Escherichia coli most probable number, we categorized results according to Compartment Bag Test drinking water cutoffs: <1/100 ...
Source: Journal of Water and Health - June 27, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Tags: J Water Health Source Type: research
