Health Change in the Asia Pacific Region 1st Edition by Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley Ulijaszek 9780521837927 0521837928

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ISBN 10: 0521837928

ISBN 13: 9780521837927

Author: Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley J. Ulijaszek

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.

Table of contents:

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?

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