title: The malaria burden and population growth in the Solomon Islands.
abstract: This paper outlines the result of the control of infectious diseases, and more especially malaria, on the growth of populations in the Solomon Islands since 1931, the year of the first census, to 1976, the year in which the fourth census revealed, that a population explosion had occurred, and was occurring unabated.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005368:Filariasis / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007918:Leprosy / Q000517:prevention & control; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008542:Melanesia; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D010965:Plasmodium malariae; D011156:Population Density; D011158:Population Growth; D011247:Pregnancy; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D015001:Yaws / Q000517:prevention & control