Inform'ACTION n°11

April 2002

ISSN 1029-3396

© Copyright SPC 2002

Inform'ACTION is the bilingual bulletin of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) produced by the Public Health Surveillance & Communicable Disease Control Section of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). It contains news and information about public health surveillance activities in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories. The first priorities of the PPHSN are communicable diseases, especially the outbreak-prone ones.

Printed at SPC (Noumea) with the support of France and NZAID. 

PDF file of the printed version (1 MB) [English and French ]

 

On line version

 Contents

 

Editorial 

Already...   (PDF file, 50 KB)

Dr. Tom Kiedrzynski

Surveillance and Response

> influenza

Valuable lessons learned from Exercise Virex in NZ (PDF file, 64 KB)

Hayley Brock

Influenza in French Polynesia (PDF file, 99 KB)

Dr. Bruno Hubert

> dengue

Report on a year of dengue surveillance in New Caledonia (2001) (PDF file, 152 KB)

Dr. Alain Berlioz-Arthaud

DEN-1 Outbreak in the Pacific – Update as at 22 May 2002 (PDF file, 35 KB)

Christelle Lepers

Distance Education & Telehealth News

The Flexible Learning and Telehealth Unit at the Fiji School of Medicine  (PDF file, 64 KB)

Rodney Yee

PPHSN News 

Outputs of the EpiNet Workshops 

     Introduction (HTML file, 14 KB)

     EpiNet Workshop II - Recommendations -  (PDF file, 66 KB)

                    * Feedback from Dr Lepani Waqatakirewa   (PDF file, 20 KB)

     EpiNet Workshop III - Recommendations -  (PDF file, 83 KB)

                      * Feedback from Dr Siale 'Akau'ola  (PDF file, 19 KB)

In Brief

A new manager for SPC Public Health Programme (PDF file, 33 KB)

 

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