Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points?
- 2 Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations
- 3 Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region
- 4 Changing nutritional health in South East Asia
- 5 Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people
- 6 Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders
- 7 Tongan obesity: causes and consequences
- 8 Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives
- 9 Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States
- 10 Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders
- 11 Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations
- 12 Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy?
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points?
- 2 Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations
- 3 Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region
- 4 Changing nutritional health in South East Asia
- 5 Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people
- 6 Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders
- 7 Tongan obesity: causes and consequences
- 8 Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives
- 9 Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States
- 10 Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders
- 11 Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations
- 12 Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy?
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region , pp. 303 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007