The Pacific Center for Emergency Health--an anatomy of collaborative development and change--the Palau perspective.

Many Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) by their geographic location, isolation, and lack of resources, are at risk for both environmental and man-made disasters. Disaster management (DM) and mitigation is frustrated by the general underdevelopment of DM planning and lack of adequate emergency medical services (EMS) to deal with daily emergencies let alone large-scale emergencies and disasters. To address this, the U.

In-country and community-based postgraduate family practice training for Micronesian physicians--the Palau AHEC: a collaborative effort.

The U.S. Institute of Medicine in its 1998 review of the health care systems among the U.

The Pacific Center for Emergency Health: an anatomy of collaborative development and change--the Palau perspective.

Many Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) by their geographic location, isolation, and lack of resources, are at risk for both environmental and man-made disasters. Disaster management (DM) and mitigation is frustrated by the general underdevelopment of DM planning and lack of adequate emergency medical services (EMS) to deal with daily emergencies let alone large-scale emergencies and disasters. To address this, the U.