 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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Papua New Guinea" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Papua New Guinea" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Papua New Guinea" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Silas VD, Pomat W, Jorry R, Emori R, Maraga S, Kue L, Berry N, Aga T, Luu HN, Ha TH, Okely AD, Pham BN. Household food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated socioeconomic demographic factors in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System. BMJ Glob Health. 2023 11; 8(11).
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