| Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region Contributor(s): Ohtsuka, Ryutaro (Editor), Ulijaszek, Stanley J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521837928 ISBN-13: 9780521837927 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $139.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, with great acceleration of change in the last 20 years, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. This volume considers recent evidence concerning prehistoric migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it examines ways in which a health pattern dominated by under-nutrition and infection has been displaced in many ways, and is being displaced elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative diseases associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernisation, migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Public Health - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 2006036793 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.88" W x 8.24" (3.30 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Pacific Rim |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. This volume considers evidence concerning prehistoric migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it examines ways in which a health pattern dominated by under-nutrition and infection has been displaced in many ways, and is being displaced elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative diseases associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernization, migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region. |