 Papua New Guinea
"Papua New Guinea" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands, including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago; Bougainville and Buka in the northern Solomon Islands; the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands; Woodlark (Murua) Island; and the Louisiade Archipelago. It became independent on September 16, 1975. Formerly, the southern part was the Australian Territory of Papua, and the northern part was the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, administered by Australia. They were administratively merged in 1949 and named Papua and New Guinea, and renamed Papua New Guinea in 1971.
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D010219
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.590.715
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Papua New Guinea" by people in Profiles.
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Mulak KE, Sarvasy HS, Tuninetti A, Escudero P. Word learning in the field: Adapting a laboratory-based task for testing in remote Papua New Guinea. PLoS One. 2021; 16(9):e0257393.
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Tracer DP, Wyckoff SL. Determinants of infant carrying behavior in rural Papua New Guinea. Am J Hum Biol. 2020 11; 32(6):e23429.
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Mueller I, Schoepflin S, Smith TA, Benton KL, Bretscher MT, Lin E, Kiniboro B, Zimmerman PA, Speed TP, Siba P, Felger I. Force of infection is key to understanding the epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Papua New Guinean children. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jun 19; 109(25):10030-5.
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Tracer DP. Breastfeeding structure as a test of parental investment theory in Papua New Guinea. Am J Hum Biol. 2009 Sep-Oct; 21(5):635-42.
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Cordain L, Lindeberg S, Hurtado M, Hill K, Eaton SB, Brand-Miller J. Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization. Arch Dermatol. 2002 Dec; 138(12):1584-90.
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Tracer DP. Reproductive and socio-economic correlates of maternal haemoglobin levels in a rural area of Papua New Guinea. Trop Med Int Health. 1997 Jun; 2(6):513-8.
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Tracer DP. Socioeconomic mediation of birth interval duration in a Papua New Guinea population. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1994 Feb 18; 709:231-3.
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Tracer DP. Fertility-related changes in maternal body composition among the Au of Papua New Guinea. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1991 Aug; 85(4):393-405.
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Hawkes RA, Boughton CR, Ferguson V. The seroepidemiology of hepatitis in Papua New Guinea. I. A long-term study of hepatitis A. Am J Epidemiol. 1981 Oct; 114(4):554-62.
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