Michael P Alpers

Dados Biográficos

ID246593
NOMEMichael P Alpers
PRENOMESMichael P
SOBRENOMEAlpers
ASSINATURAALPERS M P
AFILIAÇÕESPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1985
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • New respect for the haughty cannibals

    Open AccessJerome Whitfield, Michael P AlpersARTICLEMortality2025

  • Robert Hertz, Anthropophagic Practices and Traditional South Fore Mortuary Rites in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessJerome Whitfield, Wandagi H Pako et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2024

    In this paper we examine the traditional mortuary rites of the South Fore people of Papua New Guinea using Robert Hertz's theory of secondary burial and the three mechanisms of mourning identified by Daniel Lagache. The ethnographic data that we obtained on South Fore interpretations of their own mortuary rites showed that all forms of corpse handling achieved the same end results through the process of secondary burial. Furthermore, the three me…

  • Personnalité métaphysique et rites traditionnels mortuaires Sud Fore

    Open AccessJerome Whitfield, Wandagi H Pako et al.ARTICLEJournal de la Société des…2015Referências: 6

    Ethnographic studies on Melanesian concepts of the human body and religion have expanded our understandings of the concept of personhood. Melanesian ethnographers have used a number of descriptive words to describe the metaphysical components of the person, including: soul, spirit, life force, ghost, and vital and spiritual essence. By investigating the traditional mortuary rites of the South Fore people in Papua New Guinea, which included the pr…

  • National Policy for an Integrated Health System and Local Implementation

    Joan Macfarlane, Michael P Alpers et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2010Referências: 12

    In line with the global strategy on traditional and alternative medicine of the World Health Organization, the Government of PNG approved a National Policy on Traditional Medicine in March 2007. The Policy provides general guidelines for developing traditional medicine in PNG and incorporating it into the primary health care system. A study was conducted among the Nasioi people of Bougainville to assess the potential for an integrated health syst…

  • Treatment-seeking behaviour among the Nasioi people of Bougainville

    Joan Macfarlane, Joan Elizabeth Macfarlane et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2009Citada por: 6Referências: 4

    It is proposed that a health system that incorporates traditional medicine may be better aligned with people's concepts of illness than the current system. Because it is more consistent with Nasioi concepts of illness, an incorporated health system may lead to more appropriate health service utilisation and, ultimately, to improvements in population health status

  • Diet in an urban Papua New Guinea population with high levels of cardiovascular risk factors

    Allison M Hodge, Allison Hodge et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1996

    Usual food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes were estimated by food frequency questionnaire in the urban Wanigela people of Koki in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). This group is characterised by a high prevalence of non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Dietary data were available for 285 subjects, 38% of subjects attending a larger health survey: the study group was consi…

  • Altitude, language, and class I HLA allele frequencies in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessTom Smith, Kuldeep Bhatia et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…1994Citada por: 2Referências: 26

    Class I HLA gene frequencies show considerable variation over short geographical distances in Papua New Guinea. Hypotheses to account for this invoke natural selection, population structure, the pattern of population movement, or past demographic changes. To determine the role of the various factors in shaping this distribution, we have studied correlations between HLA‐based genetic distances, geographical distances, altitude, and linguistic diff…

  • Human Biology in Papua New Guinea

    Pierre Lemonnier, Robert Attenborough et al.ARTICLEMan1994

  • Nutritional status of some Papua New Guinea highlanders as assessed by physical measurements and blood analysis

    Chigusa Date, Masako Baba et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1988

    Nutritional assessment (measurements of height, body weight, skinfold thickness, blood pressure and blood analysis) was performed on 740 residents over 5 years of age in a mountainous village in Papua New Guinea. The subjects live on sweet potato as their staple food and have little salt in their diet. In spite of their low protein intake, they did not suffer from malnutrition. Their total serum protein was high, but the serum albumin level was l…

  • Blood pressure in Papua New Guinea

    H King, A Collins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1985Citada por: 1Referências: 13

    The results of a population survey of blood pressure in the adult residents of two highland villages in the Asaro Valley, Papua New Guinea are reported. The survey was conducted in 1983 as part of a wider epidemiological investigation of non-communicable disease in Papua New Guinea. Response to the survey was 95%, and 308 subjects were examined. Population estimates of both systolic and diastolic blood pressures were low and there was a virtual a…