Biomedical subjects
P Sinnett
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Lifestyle, health and disease: a comparison between Papua New Guinea and Australia.
The proposition that lifestyle is a major determinant of community health is explored by contrasting the features of a rural subsistence community in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and the features of the community in urbanized, industrialized Australia. Reference is made to differences in physical environment, housing, work, social situation, human relationships, patterns of disease, population statistics, diet, growth, obesity, physical fitness, blood lipid concentrations, blood pressure, salt intake and the occurrence of hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and signs of degenerative changes in various tissues. The Papua New Guinea community is seen as a self-reliant, self-contained, socially cohesive subsistence society whose members are well adapted to their physical and social environment, free from major degenerative cardiovascular diseases, with little overt psychiatric illness, but with a heavy burden of infectious disease, with marginal nutritional levels of degenerative disease and disease from psychological stress. It is clear that health, in its fullest sense, is not the prerogative of any one type of society.
Variation in blood pressure in a New Guinea population.
The contributions of age and anthropometric, biochemical and socio-economic variables to blood pressure variation in the population of Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea are examined. Blood pressure does not change with age in males; in females there is a decline from ages 21 to 40 and an increase (in systolic pressure) thereafter. Body weight and skinfold thicknesses decline with age in females; arm circumferences decline in both sexes. There were no age effects on serum cholesterol or serum sodium. Variation in ponderal index and subcutaneous fat contribute to variation in blood pressure. The correlations of blood pressure with physique are more important in males and the particular variables concerned suggest a nutritional basis. The socio-economic variables examined showed little variation and this was not associated with variation in blood pressure.
Coronary heart disease in Papua New Guinea: present and future.
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Nutrition and age-related changes in the body build of adults: studies in a New Guinea highland community.
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Cardiovascular epidemiology--a study in New Guinea.
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Nutrition in a New Guinea highland community.
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Lactate dehydrogenase electrophoretic variant in a New Guinea Highland population.
Six examples of a variation in the LDH-A subunit have been detected in 408 samples from three exogamous clans in the New Guinea Highlands. The New Guinea variant is similar to the Memphis-4 variant. Origin of the New Guinea variant could not be traced by genealogy but it seems likely to have persisted for several generations.
Australia: special needs in health care--the aged.
Australian health and welfare services have developed in an ad hoc fashion. In response to demands by interested groups within the community, governments have relied on fiscal control and political expediency to regulate the growth of services and benefits. The lack of comprehensive policies and adequate planning has resulted in legislative complexity and administrative fragmentation, which has adversely affected the development of effective health and welfare services for the elderly Australian. The nature of these difficulties is discussed and recommendations are made for their resolution.