"Samoa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific, divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa, a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)
| Descriptor ID |
D018947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.815.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Samoa- Samoa
- Samoan Islands
- Samoa Islands
- Navigator Island
- Navigator Islands
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Samoa" by people in Profiles.
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Decolonising violence against women research: a study design for co-developing violence prevention interventions with communities in low and middle income countries (LMICs). BMC Public Health. 2021 06 15; 21(1):1147.
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The potential impact of a recent measles epidemic on COVID-19 in Samoa. BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 07; 20(1):735.
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Association between the spread of COVID-19 and weather-climatic parameters. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2020 08; 24(15):8226-8231.
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In the aftermath: the legacy of measles in Samoa. Lancet. 2020 05 16; 395(10236):1535-1536.
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Is Samoa Prepared for an Outbreak of COVID-19? Asia Pac J Public Health. 2021 09; 33(6-7):797-798.