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The Marshallese society developed strategies to stay
healthy on what is in the Western world considered marginal and resource
poor land. Herbal medicine played a major role.
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 Plants
and their uses in the Marshalls -- Medicinal Plants
- compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann
- Table
of plants, their Marshallese names and their traditional uses as medicinal
plants
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With the commencement of European administration, health
services of some kind of the other were started. The German colonial government
established the first public health service, centered on Jaluit. A substantial
amount of research into public health issues has been carried out over
the years.
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- Epidemics
recorded for the southern Marshall Islands (1887-1943)
- compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann
- Quarterly
medical statistics for the Government Physican Jaluit to 1912
- compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann
- The
Country Health Information Profile for the Republic of the Marshall
Islands
- WHO Western Pacific Region
- The
Country Health Information Profile for the Republic of the Marshall
Islands 2000
- WHO Western Pacific Region
- The
Country Profile, Republic of the Marshall Islands 2000
- WHO Western Pacific Region
- Statistics
in the RMI Yearbook for 1996
, 1997, 1998-99,
2002
- Republic
of the Marshall Islands 1986 Statistical Abstract
- Country
Overview and statitistical indicators for 2004
(Courtesy RMI Division of Planning)
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During the 140sto 1960s the United States of America
carried out a number of nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands. Some of these led to the contamination of seveal islands, and caused radition related illnesses among a large number of Marshallese citizens. A variety of studies have been carried out into the health of the affected people.[.
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Health
- Estimation
of the Baseline Number of Cancers Among Marshallese and the Number
- of
Cancers Attributable to Exposure to Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing
Conducted in the Marshall Islands
- Prepared by the Division of Cancer Epidemiology
and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services
- Report
prepared for Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources September,
2004
Politics
- Republic
of the Marshall Islands Changed Circumstances Petition to Congress March
14, 2005
- Prepared by Thomas Lum (Coordinator),
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division; Kenneth Thomas, American
Law Division; C. Stephen Redhead, Domestic Social Policy Division; David
Bearden, Mark Holt, and Salvatore Lazzari, Resources, Science, and Industry
Division.
- Report supplied by Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress
- Report
Evaluating the Request of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall
Islands
- Presented
to the Congress of the United States of America Regarding Changed Circumstances
Arising From U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Pursuant to
Article IX of the Nuclear Claims Settlement Approved by Congress in
Public Law 99-239 November 2004
- Released by the Bureau of East Asian
and Pacific Affairs Jan. 4, 2005
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The size of the inhabitable islands and the food they
could produce limited the number of people they could support. The Europeans
brought new diseases which resulted in a temporary population decline.
Population data exist for many of the atolls.
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- Historic
Demographic Information for the Marshall Islands
- compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann
- Demographic tables
arranged by period and by atoll. Contains a great deal of historic data.
- Population
control measures in traditional Marshallese Culture:
- a review of 19th century European observations
- by Dirk H.R. Spennemann
- The environmental
conditions, coupled with the extremely limited land area make the Marshall
Islands marginal settlement land. At a time when all food had
to be produced on the islands or caught in the sea, the population of
a given atoll could not be allowed to rise beyond the atoll's carrying
capacity. Hence a number of population control measures had been developed.
These are discussed in this paper.
-
Pilot Survey of Marshallese living in Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, the CNMI
and in the Marshalls
- Detailed Press Release by the RMI Government
- Contains summary information
on the findings, incl. information on Housing Characteristics (Household
size, Building type, Tenure, Structure and Facilities) and Population
Characteristics (Demography, Migration, Social characteristics, Education,
Labor force, Income.and Poverty Status).
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