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Geographical Locations - Oceania
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General Links
The (statistical) number of inhabitants per doctor is given per country in its respective section.
- The average number for Oceania is about 3,800 inhabitants / doctor. (Min.: New Zealand: 359; Max.: Papua New Guinea: 9,953)
The WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Region ( WPRO) is located in Manila (Philippines), a list of WPRO Member States can be found here.
Many of the Pacific Islands have not yet put into place the infrastructure for extensive (and expensive) electronic communication. However, there are regional networks which provide access to resources on almost all of the islands. Here are several links to these networks which we found very useful:
- Asia Pacific Development Information Programme - The Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that aims to promote the development and application of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. It does so through three core programme areas, namely: Policy Development and Dialogue, Access and Content Development and Knowledge Management.
- Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health (USA) - "Break the language barriers which discourage many Asian and Pacific Islander women from seeking cancer screening services. This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients. Early detection can make a difference in treatment and survival"
- Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center - "Established in Nov. 1996, aims at promoting the information-technologies for women and women-related communication technologies in South Korea, North Korea and the Asia-Pacific region in general. APWINC is in charge of the UNESCO Chair project on communication technology for women (1998.6.-2001.6.).APWINC is in the process of constructing comprehensive cyber-information service systems for Asia-Pacific region"
- Center for Pacific Islands Studies (University of Hawaii at Manoa) - coordinates much of the Pacific-related activity at the university and is unique in two important respects. It is the only academic center in the United States that focuses solely on the islands of the Pacific and the only National Resource Center (NRC) for the region that is recognized and supported by the US Department of Education
- David Robie's Café Pacific - This is a forum for communication, information exchange, news, fun, chat, in short: everything you expect from a real Café; certainly one of the richest resources available, check it out
- European Centre on Pacific Issues (ECSIEP) - "Set up in 1992 to improve the quantity and quality of the information flow from the Pacific to Europe. It functions as a service bureau for the Europe Pacific Solidarity Network"
- Pacific Island Kavabowl Forum - a lively site of community interaction, links to other island sites
- Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center, Hawaii - to assist in providing professional services and research information to the Pacific island leaders in their collective efforts to achieve the desired social and economic development goals for the people in the Pacific islands region. PIDP conducts specific research and training activities based on the issues and problems identified and prioritized by the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders and its Standing Committee. The Standing Committee, composed of eleven island leaders, reviews PIDP's research and training projects annually to ensure that they respond to the issues and challenges raised at each Pacific Islands Conference. This unique process ensures that PIDP's research and training programs are relevant and responsive to the needs of the Pacific island countries
- Pacific Islands Internet Resources - Provided by Michael R. Ogden, this site attempts to bring together in one location a catalog (as complete as possible) of the resources available via the World Wide Web focusing on the Pacific Islands, highly recommended
- Pacific Journalism Review - "South Pacific news media, information and communication issues. Published by Asia-Pacific Network in association with the Journalism Programme, University of the South Pacific. This journal is linked to the website of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney"
- Pacific Magazine - is printed six times per year and generally runs between 72 and 80 pages per issue. Features and articles include general news, business, travel, culture, politics, history, education, and current events about Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia
- Pacific Open Learning Health Network - The Pacific Open Learning Health Net programme was established to enable access to continuing education and professional development for health care workers in Pacific Island Countries, particularly those working in rural and remote areas. The programme has established computer laboratories as resource centres for health professionals in ten countries and has begun piloting distance education courses to facilitate learning.
- Pacific Resources for Education and Learning - A nonprofit corporation that serves the U.S. entities in the Pacific region. PREL helps Pacific schools improve educational outcomes for children, youth, and adults by providing research, development, training, technical assistance, group facilitation, information resource activities, dissemination and evaluation services, an excellent resource
- Polynesian Cultural Center - located in Hawaii, "the 42-acre, open-air Polynesian Cultural Center casts you in the role of explorer on a whirlwind tour of the Pacific. The people you meet are real Pacific islanders. You'll navigate a living map of Polynesia, visiting seven Polynesian nations: Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, the Marquesas, Samoa and Hawaii"
- Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (Australian National University) - "The rationale for the establishment of the School was essentially the growing awareness that Australia needed a sound understanding of the problems both of the 'Pacific Island neighbourhood', and the 'near North' of Southeast and East Asia. Asia and the Pacific remain a region of manifest importance to Australia and the School seeks to provide the intellectual community of Australia (government, media, other academics and the interested public) with an understanding of the societies and environments of the region. Achieving this purpose requires the cultivation of several interacting disciplines, based on solid evidence, appropriate time-depth and rigorous analysis. Work is carried out on the Australian mainland in physical geography, archaeology and anthropology and Australia's relations with Asia and the Pacific Islands is an important theme in most fields"
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) - "SPC is an international organisation that provides technical assistance, policy advice, training and research services to 22 Pacific Island countries and territories in areas such as health, human development, agriculture, forestry and fisheries. All of these areas are critical to the eight million people of the Pacific, who continue to face challenges from their remote locations and scarce resources, as well as new challenges from growing populations, decreasing food security and the effects of climate change." Formerly known as the South Pacific Commission.
- Sites: A Journal for South Pacific Cultural Studies - "A multi-disciplinary journal established in 1981 to promote the study of cultural questions within the broad tradition of left scholarship. We publish articles with a predominantly Aotearoa/New Zealand and South Pacific focus on a wide range of cultural debates from a variety of critical perspectives"
- Small Islands Information Network - a global site with reference to Oceania, containing information on small islands throughout the world.
- Statement from the Pacific High Level Consultation on HIV and the Law, Ethics and Human Rights, Auckland, New Zealand, 11th – 13th April 2007 - "UNDP, RRRT and UNAIDS commissioned the review of current legislation of 15 Pacific Island countries that were relevant to HIV issues, specifically in the areas of discrimination, ethics, access to treatment and privacy/confidentiality. The Pacific Island countries participating were: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The meeting was attended by more than 30 Pacific Attorneys General, Ministers of Health, Ministers of Justice, Members of Parliament, and other senior government officials, with an additional 15 International and Regional HIV, legal, ethics, human rights and gender experts and resource people."
- Public Health Surveillance Network - "The Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) is a voluntary network of countries/territories and organisations, dedicated to the promotion of public health surveillance and response."
- State, Society & Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Project - "Explores the nexus between state and society with specific reference to the concept of governance and its perceived weakness in the independent states of the southwest Pacific. It does so in terms of particular intersections of global, regional, national, provincial and local contexts. A core concern is with the nature and problems of sovereignty in new, avowedly Christian nations, which were effectively colonial creations and had no overarching indigenous polities. These nations, furthermore, are located within the world's most diverse region, in social, cultural, ethnic and linguistic terms, and are subject to multiple external pressures, especially but not exclusively economic"
- The Criminalisation of HIV/AIDS in the Pacific Islands: Why using the criminal law to fight HIV/AIDS is not the answer - "Why do we think that the criminal law, and specifically the creation of an HIV/AIDS related offence, will protect us from infection? Since HIV/AIDS prevalence remains low in the region, our primary concern must be to prevent the spread of infection. So does such an offence actually contribute to this goal? Moreover, is the creation of such an offence an effective policy response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Pacific region? This discussion paper is an excerpt from a larger paper which examines existing criminal code provisions in the Pacific and their suitability for use in cases of wilful, reckless or negligent transmission of HIV. This particular portion of that paper focuses on the pragmatic and principled reasons for why creating a HIV/AIDS specific offence, or – for that matter - relying on the criminal law at all, is not an appropriate course of action for Pacific Island countries to take." [AIDSLEX (the AIDS and Law Exchange), 2008]
- Tobacco smoking prevalence in Pacific Island countries and territories: a review - Aim: To comprehensively review adult and youth smoking prevalence data in Pacific Island countries and territories (PICT). Methods: MEDLINE search for period 1986–2006 and search of World Health Organization and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention databases. Results: Smoking prevalence in PICT ranges from 22%–57% (males) and from 0.6%–51% (females). All PICT male populations (except Palau) report higher rates than in Australia and New Zealand. Nauru, Tokelau, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Kiribati report high rates of female smoking. Youth rates of smoking range from 3%–68% (although unavailable for many PICT). Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Cook Islands, and American Samoa report very high levels of youth smoking in both males and females. Smoking prevalence appears to have decreased in the last 30 years in male populations with a variable picture in female populations. Conclusions: PICT continue to show high levels of smoking prevalence, with youth smoking rates particularly concerning. There is a need for more robust and systematic collection and publication of smoking prevalence data in PICT, especially youth data, but this should not delay urgently required action to reduce tobacco use in PICT. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control provides a powerful tool, but its provisions should be implemented rapidly, particularly increased tobacco taxation. [author abstract] [New Zealand Medical Journal, 12 October 2007, Vol 120, No 1263]
- WHO Water and Sanitation Programme - East Asia and the Pacific - "UNDP’s association with the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) goes right back to its foundation in 1972. The institution-building assistance which UNDP had provided in these early days, was instrumental in the formation of SOPAC as an independent regional organisation in 1984 and to its direct involvement in the execution of the Pacific Water Supply and Sanitation Programme. For some time the UNDP was looking for a "regional home" for its Pacific Water Supply and Sanitation Programme. The matter was considered by SPOCC (South Pacific Organisations Co-ordinating Committee) and in 1993 they agreed that SOPAC should be the lead agency for the UNDP-funded program, with the solid waste component sub-contracted to SPREP (South Pacific Regional Environment Program) and sanitation aspects to the SPC (South Pacific Commission)"
List of Individual Countries
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
American Samoa ( see also -> Samoa )
Australia
C
Cook Islands
F
Fiji
French Polynesia
G
Guam
K
Kiribati
M
Marshall Islands
Micronesia ( Federated States of ~ )
N
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
P
Palau
Pitcairn Islands
Papua New Guinea
Polynesia ( see -> French Polynesia )
S
Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa; see also -> American Samoa )
Solomon Islands
T
Tahiti ( see -> French Polynesia )
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
V
Vanuatu ( formerly known as New Hebrides )
W
Wallis and Futuna
Western Samoa ( see -> Samoa )
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