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				Pacific Health 
				Dialog: The Health of Native Hawaiians, Vol. 5, No. 2 
				
				
				
				Guest Editorials 
				JoAnn Tsark, Richard Blaisdell, Noa Emmett Aluli 
				Kenneth Brown, Page 228-231 
				  
				
				
				Special Feature 
				
				
				
				Ke Ala Ola Pono: the Native Hawai’ian 
				community’s effort to heal itself 
				H. Spoehr, M. Akau, W. Akutagawa, K. Birnie, Mei–Ling Chang, E. 
				Kinney, S. Nissanka, D. Peters, R. Sagum, D. Soares, Page 
				232-238 
				  
				
				
				Original Papers 
				
				
				
				Laau Lapaau: herbal healing among 
				contemporary Hawai’ian healers 
				N. Judd, Page 239-245 
				
				
				
				Where are the Native Hawai’ian physicians? 
				'Iwalani Else, N. Palafox, D. Little, Page 246-252 
				
				
				
				Injury and disability among Native Hawai’ians 
				D. Goebert, K. Birnie, Page 253-259 
				  
				
				
				Case Reports and Short Communications 
				
				
				
				The relationship between Sakau (kava) and 
				gastritis 
				J. Ngirasowei, J. Malani, Page 266-268 
				
				
				
				A retrospective review of inpatient pediatric 
				records in Majuro Hospital, 1996 
				H. Yin, M. Lanwi, Page 269-270 
				  
				
				
				Conference Reports and Papers 
				
				
				
				Native Hawai’ian Health and Wellness Summit: 
				Ka ’Uhane Lokahi 
				M. A. Look, G. Mackura, H. Spoehr, Page 271-272 
				
				
				
				Inside out: methodological issues on being a 
				‘native’ researcher 
				M. Anae, Page 273-279 
				
				
				
				Twelfth International Congress on Child Abuse 
				and Neglect: ‘Protecting Children: Innovation and Inspiration’, 
				Auckland, September '98 
				Greg Dever, Page 280-281 
				  
				
				
				Review Papers 
				
				
				
				Na Kupuna in Hawai’i: a review of social and 
				health status, service use and the importance of value–based 
				interventions 
				N. Mokuau, C. V. Browne, K. L. Braun, Page 282-289 
				
				
				
				The health of Hawai’ian women 
				M. Look, S. Sylva, G. Baruffi, Page 290-286 
				
				
				
				Papa Ola Lokahi Hawai’ian health update: 
				mortality, morbidity and behavioral risks 
				D. B. Johnson, N. Oyama, L. Le Marchand, Page 297-314 
				
				
				
				Cancer in Native Hawai’ians 
				J. U. Tsark, Page 315-327 
				
				
				
				Traditional Hawai’ian diet programs: a 
				culturally competent chronic disease intervention 
				C. K. Hughes, Page 328-331 
				
				
				
				Dental caries in early childhood among Native 
				Hawai’ians 
				M. H. K. Greer, S. L. Tengan, Page 332-336 
				
				
				
				Polynesian ethnobotanicals: a critical role 
				in new drug discovery 
				C. D. Boyd, A. Maunakea, L. J. Mordan, K. Csiszar, Page 337-340 
				
				
				
				Etiology of depression among Native 
				Hawai’ians 
				K. M. Crabbe, Page 341-345 
				
				
				
				Current status of research on diabetes 
				mellitus and associated risk factors in Native Hawai’ians 
				M. K. Mau, Page 346-349 
				
				
				
				Mongolia: a transitional society and the 
				consequences for adolescent health 
				A. Diaz, Page 350-356 
				  
				
				
				Viewpoints and Perspectives 
				
				
				
				Ka Maka o ka Ihe Laumeki – The Point of the 
				Barbed Spear: Native Hawai’ian epistemology and health 
				J. Nani’ole, M. A. Meyer, Page 357-360 
				
				
				
				A holistic assessment method of health and 
				well–being for Native Hawai’ian communities 
				D. P. McGregor, L. Minerbi, J. Matsuoka, Page 361-369 
				
				
				
				Disease management: the interface between 
				Hawai’ian health and the Western health care system 
				J. Humphry, T. L. K. Reinhardt, Page 370-374 
				  
				
				
				Pacific Health Institutions 
				
				
				
				A history of Imi Ho'ola 
				B. B. C. Young, Page 375-377 
				
				
				
				The Pa’ani Program: community-based early 
				intervention and its implications for Hawai’ian health 
				J. Inouye, A. W. Guillory, G. Fink, Page 378-380 
				
				
				
				Kahuku Hospital Healthy Communities Farmers 
				Market: a culturally appropriate health intervention 
				A. Hughes, Page 381-382 
				
				
				
				Hele Mai 'Ai: developing a culturally 
				competent nutrition education program 
				S. K. Odom, Page 383-385 
				
				
				
				Native Hawai’ian Health Scholarship Placement 
				Program 
				K. K. Birnie, Page 386-389 
				  
				
				
				
				Book Reviews 
				Page 390-391 
				  
				
				
				
				Journal Abstracts 
				Page 392-396 
				  
				
				
				
				Glossary of Hawai’ian words and phrases 
				Page 397-397 
				  
				
				
				
				Some Hawai’ian health agencies and programs 
				Page 398-398 
				  
				
				
				
				Letters to the Editor 
				Page 399-402 
				  
				
				
				
				PHD Editorials 
				G. Dever, S A Finau, Page 403-404 
				  
				  
				
				Pacific Health 
				Dialog: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in the Pacific, Vol. 
				5, No. 1 
				
				
				
				Guest Editorials 
				Sang Tae Han, Marcus H. Samo, Michael J. O’Leary, Page 004-007 
				  
				
				
				Original Papers 
				
				
				
				Naked wire and naked truths: reproductive 
				health risks faced by teenage girls in Honiara, Solomon Islands 
				Fanou Burslem, Orapin Laohapensang, Josephine Sauvarin, Margaret 
				Young, Ann Larson, Page 008-015 
				
				
				
				HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and practices 
				in the Cook Islands 
				Neti Tamarua, Edwina Tangaroa, Michael J. O’Leary, Page 016-021 
				
				
				
				HIV and AIDS knowledge among medical 
				laboratory technologists in the Pacific 
				Robert W. L. Siebers, Michael Lynch, Page 022-025 
				
				
				
				The concept of empowerment in a traditional 
				Fijian context 
				Glenn Laverack, Page 026-029 
				
				
				
				Animal leptospirosis in the Federated States 
				of Micronesia 
				James R. Simms, Page 030-037 
				
				
				
				Diurnal sub–periodic Bancroftian filariasis 
				in Dogura, Papua New Guinea 
				Peter Sapak, Andrew Valley, Pamela Giurina, Conrad Maibani, Page 
				038-040 
				
				
				
				The effectiveness of pertussis immunization 
				during a pertussis outbreak in Choiseul Province, Solomon 
				Islands 
				Thomas F. Wierzba, Christopher Chevalier, Bolton Hebala, Junilyn 
				Pikacha, Page 041-046 
				
				
				
				Sex industries and sexual networking in Papua 
				New Guinea: public health risks and implications 
				Lawrence Hammar, Page 047-053 
				
				
				
				Sociocultural vectors and the evolution of 
				virulence in diarrheal pathogens affecting Micronesian 
				populations 
				Vincent P. Diego, Page 054-066 
				  
				
				
				Case Reports and Short Communications 
				
				
				
				The prevalence of liver abscess in Pohnpei 
				State, Micronesia 
				Johnny Hedson, Page 067-069 
				
				
				
				Lepromatous leprosy masquerading as 
				neurofibromatosis 
				A Mark Durand, Page 070-071 
				
				
				
				Noncompliance to anti-tuberculosis medication 
				in Pohnpei, Micronesia 
				Mayleen Jack Ekiek, Page 072-073 
				
				
				
				Prevalence of intestinal helminth infection 
				in Fiji 
				Elizabeth Mathai, Serupepeli Goneyali, Isoa Volavola, Page 
				074-075 
				
				
				
				Prostitution in CNMI: political and economic 
				aspects of emerging infectious diseases 
				Seiji Yamada, Page 076-078 
				
				
				
				Campylobacter 
				and Vibrio infections on Guam 
				Robert L. Haddock, Page 079-082 
				  
				
				
				Conference Reports and Papers 
				
				
				
				Voices from the community: a call to action 
				for Asian and Pacific Island health in the new millennium 
				Stevenson Kuartei, Page 083-085 
				
				
				
				Today’s health – tomorrow’s wealth: the 
				fourth annual PBMA conference, 1998 
				Kennedy Remit, Victor Yano, Page 086-088 
				
				
				
				The Convention on the Rights of the Child: 
				first call for Pacific children 
				Ezekiel T. Nukuro, Page 089-093 
				
				
				
				The Pacific Regional Consultation on the 
				Convention on the Rights of the Child: Monitoring and Reporting, 
				August 97 
				K. Chamberlain, Page 094-095 
				
				
				
				South West Pacific Malaria Meeting: 14–17 
				July 1997 
				Joan Bryan, Kevin Palmer, Page 096-098 
				
				
				
				The Fourth Pacific Conference of Community 
				Health in Medical Education: 19 July 1997 
				May Okihiro, Page 099-101 
				
				
				
				Can the Pacific get rid of filariasis by the 
				year 2020? A conference report 
				Peter Sapak, Page 102-104 
				  
				
				
				Review Papers 
				
				
				
				WHO response to resurgence of tuberculosis: 
				the DOTS strategy for effective control 
				Leopold J. Blanc, Page 105-107 
				
				
				
				Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: infection, 
				maternal smoking and ethnic group 
				C.C. Blackwell, D.M. Weir, A. Busuttil, Page 108-118 
				
				
				
				Measles in Fiji, 1875: thoughts on the 
				history of emerging infectious diseases 
				David M. Morens, Page 119-128 
				
				
				
				Dengue in the Pacific: an updated story 
				Tom Kiedrzynski, Yvan Souarès, Tony Stewart, Page 129-136 
				
				
				
				Cryptosporidiosis: an emerging microbial 
				threat in the Pacific 
				Nina Russell, Phil Weinstein, Alistair Woodward, Page 137-141 
				
				
				
				Hepatitis B infection in the Pacific 
				Elizabeth Mathai, Murli Krishna, Page 142-146 
				
				
				
				Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: dealing 
				with a newly emerging disease 
				David M. Morens, Page 147-153 
				
				
				
				Dengue in French Polynesia: major features, 
				surveillance, molecular epidemiology and current situation 
				Eliane Chungue, Xavier Deparis, Bernadette Murgue, Page 154-162 
				  
				
				
				Reprint 
				
				
				
				Ciguatera: dilemmas in clinical recognition, 
				presentation and management 
				John Pearn, Page 163-166 
				  
				
				
				Viewpoints and Perspectives 
				
				
				
				Emerging infectious diseases: the Pacific at 
				the crossroads 
				Stephen M. Ostroff, Page 167-170 
				
				
				
				The tuberculosis epidemic in the CNMI 
				Jon Bruss, Artin Mahmoudi, Page 171-175 
				
				
				
				Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart 
				disease: a prevention program for the Pacific 
				Steven B. Auerbach, Page 176-179 
				
				
				
				Healthy Islands: from concept to practice 
				Jan Ritchie, Arie Rotem, Bronwyn Hine, Page 180-186 
				  
				
				
				Pacific Health Institutions 
				
				
				
				Climate, ENSO and health in the Pacific: 
				research in progress 
				Nancy Davis Lewis, Michael Hamnett, Usha Prasad, Liem Tran, Alan 
				Hilton, Page 187-190 
				
				
				
				The Field Epidemiology Training Program: 
				responding to the challenge of current and emerging infections 
				Mahomed Patel, Robert Douglas, Page 191-194 
				
				
				
				Field epidemiology and public health 
				surveillance training: proposals for new methods as part of the 
				PPHSN 
				Yvan Souarès, Tom Kiedrzynski, Page 195-199 
				
				
				
				PPHSN and PACNET: the Pacific islands are now 
				tuned into the 21st century 
				Yvan Souarès, Page 200-204 
				  
				
				
				
				Book Reviews 
				Page 205-213 
				  
				
				
				
				Journal Abstracts 
				Page 214-217 
				  
				
				
				
				Letters to the Editor 
				Page 219-220 
				  
				
				
				
				PHD Editor 
				S A Finau, Page 224-224  |