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Health change in the Asia-Pacific region : biocultural and epidemiological approaches / edited by Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley J. Ulijaszek.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 52.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: viii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521837928
  • 9780521837927
Other title:
  • Biocultural and epidemiological approaches
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1095 22
LOC classification:
  • RA650.7.S68 H43 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Health change in the Asia-Pacific region : disparate end-points? / Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 2. Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific : implications for prehistoric migrations / Stephen Oppenheimer -- 3. Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 4. Changing nutritional health in South East Asia / Geoffrey C. Marks -- 5. Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people / Gary T. C. Ko -- 6. Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders / Taro Yamauchi -- 7. Tongan obesity : causes and consequences / Tsukasa Inaoka, Yasuhiro Matsumura and Kazuhiro Suda -- 8. Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans : temporal trends and adaptive perspectives / Ember D. Keighley, Stephen T. McGarvey, Christine Quested, Charles McCuddin, Satupaitea Viali and Uto'ofili A. Maga -- 9. Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States / W. Parker Frisbie, Robert A. Hummer, T. Elizabeth Durden and Youngtae Cho -- 10. Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders / Stanley J. . Ulijaszek -- 11. Mortality decline in the Pacific : economic development and other explanations / Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely -- 12. Health changes in Papua New Guinea : from adaptation to double jeopardy? / Robert Attenborough.
Summary: "The Asia-Specific 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."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Health change in the Asia-Pacific region : disparate end-points? / Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 2. Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific : implications for prehistoric migrations / Stephen Oppenheimer -- 3. Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- 4. Changing nutritional health in South East Asia / Geoffrey C. Marks -- 5. Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people / Gary T. C. Ko -- 6. Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders / Taro Yamauchi -- 7. Tongan obesity : causes and consequences / Tsukasa Inaoka, Yasuhiro Matsumura and Kazuhiro Suda -- 8. Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans : temporal trends and adaptive perspectives / Ember D. Keighley, Stephen T. McGarvey, Christine Quested, Charles McCuddin, Satupaitea Viali and Uto'ofili A. Maga -- 9. Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States / W. Parker Frisbie, Robert A. Hummer, T. Elizabeth Durden and Youngtae Cho -- 10. Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders / Stanley J. . Ulijaszek -- 11. Mortality decline in the Pacific : economic development and other explanations / Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely -- 12. Health changes in Papua New Guinea : from adaptation to double jeopardy? / Robert Attenborough.

"The Asia-Specific 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."--Publisher description.

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