Literature DB >> 12343016

Differential mortality of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific labour trade.

R Shlomowitz.   

Abstract

"Quantitative evidence is presented on the differential mortality suffered by Indian and Pacific Island labour migrants on Fiji's plantations between 1883 and 1919, and by Japanese, Chinese and Pacific Island labour migrants in the phosphate mines on Ocean Island and Nauru between 1913 and 1940. Pacific Island labour migrants suffered much higher death rates than Asian labour migrants, due, it is suggested, to their much greater vulnerability to newly introduced infectious diseases." excerpt

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Keywords:  Communicable Diseases; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Differential Mortality; Diseases; Fiji; Infections; Kiribati; Labor Migration; Micronesia; Micronesia-polynesia; Migrants; Migration; Mortality; Nauru; Oceania; Polynesia; Population; Population Dynamics

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Year:  1990        PMID: 12343016     DOI: 10.1007/bf03029360

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Aust Popul Assoc


  2 in total

1.  Epidemiological isolation causing variable mortality in Island populations during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.

Authors:  G Dennis Shanks; Tracy Hussell; John F Brundage
Journal:  Influenza Other Respir Viruses       Date:  2012-01-06       Impact factor: 4.380

2.  A cross-sectional seroepidemiological survey of typhoid fever in Fiji.

Authors:  Conall H Watson; Stephen Baker; Colleen L Lau; Kitione Rawalai; Mere Taufa; Jerimaia Coriakula; Nga Tran Vu Thieu; Tan Trinh Van; Dung Tran Thi Ngoc; Niel Hens; John H Lowry; Ruklanthi de Alwis; Jorge Cano; Kylie Jenkins; E Kim Mulholland; Eric J Nilles; Mike Kama; W John Edmunds
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2017-07-20
  2 in total

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