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  3. Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511542510
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542510
Subjects:
Life Sciences, Pathology and Laboratory Science, Medicine, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (52)
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Book 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.

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Review of the hardback:'I enthusiastically recommend this book. It will appear especially to students and scholars of anthropology, public health, globalization and Pacific peoples.'

Source: Anthropological Science

Review of the hardback:'… provides remarkable insights for social science researchers …'

Source: Internationales Asienforum

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