Mortality analysis of registered deaths in the FSM from 1990-2003.

This paper discusses the result of a mortality analysis carried out in the Federated States of Micronesia in 2005. The result shows that the population crude mortality rate decreased slightly between the years 1990-1992. Disease-specific mortality was highest among the chronic, or non-communicable diseases (i.

Risk factors for cholera in Pohnpei during an outbreak in 2000: lessons for Pacific countries and territories.

In April 2000, a large outbreak of cholera due to Vibrio cholerae serotype Ogawa biotype El Tor affected the Island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. A Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network team conducted a case control study in the middle of the epidemic. The aims of the study were to identify individual and household level risk factors for cholera, and to evaluate public health interventions aimed at controlling the outbreak.