This article aims to prove that gender inequality still exists and is likely to remain in the region of Asia Pacific countries. In the first part, it will consider the data on three perspectives which are participation, wages and occupational composition of employment for women in order to understand the current situation of women employment. In the second part, it will focus on China and Japan...

A WHO workshop on the theme of sustainability of leprosy services in the Island States in the South Pacific was held in Fiji, from the 10th to the 12th May 2010. Among the countries invited to attend the workshop were the only three states in the WHO Western Pacific Region still above the point of elimination of leprosy, namely the FSM (Federated Sates of Micronesia), the Marshall Islands and K...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Taiwan has been dispatching an increasing number of short-term medical missions (STMMs) to its allied nations to provide humanitarian health care; however, overall evaluations to help policy makers strengthen the impact of such missions are lacking. Our primary objective is to identify useful strategies by comparing STMMs to the South Pacific and Central America. METH...

Pacific Telepathology service has been established at Fiji school of Medicine (FSM) with technical support from University of Basel. The service is designed for remote consultation, continuing medical education (CME) health care research (HCR). To develop Telepathology services for participation with international Telepathology community for improving quality of health care in the Pacific. Tele...

Remote monitoring of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) has emerged as a tool to replace regular follow-up of such devices, and to detect hardware failure, arrhythmias, and heart failure decompensation. The Asia-Pacific region is a geographically diverse area, with widely different cardiac device implant rates and expertise. However, common to all countries, distance ...

This paper studies how the Trans-Pacific region affects the US economy in terms of business cycle transmission. We use a large dataset consisting of disaggregated sectoral industrial production indexes from selected countries in the region and employ a factoraugmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) approach to analyze the transmission of shocks in different industries. We find that a positive ou...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 1 2006 © Asia Pacific Press Pacific island economies are some of the most remittancedependent in the world. Proposals to lower the costs of sending money across borders are a core recommendation of recent international studies that aim to enhance the development impact of remittances. The potential increase in remittances that recipient countries can e...

During the last decades, whole chains of dengue epidemics emerged in the South Pacific region. In contrast with the situation in hyper endemic continental countries and in the Caribbean, the epidemiology of dengue in the South Pacific islands Countries (SPICs) is characterized by the non-persistent co-circulation of multiple serotypes and the long-term predominance, with local re-emergences, of...

Pacific Islands are at the forefront of the trend towards high or even 100% renewable energy penetration of their electricity grids. Many have been highly or totally reliant on imported diesel fuel, with associated price uncertainties and GDP impacts. Countries like Fiji are highly reliant on hydro power and become vulnerable in periods of low rainfall, such as during El Nino events, when diese...