Ryutaro Ohtsuka / Stanley J. Ulijaszek (eds.)

Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

Herausgeber: Ohtsuka, Ryutaro; Ulijaszek, Stanley J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521837927
• ISBN-10: 0521837928
• Artikelnr.: 22753318

Autorenporträt

RYUTARO OHTSUKA is President of the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.
STANLEY J. ULIJASZEK is Professor of Human Ecology in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. His research is focused on the biocultural ecology of human populations past and present, and nutritional anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; 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 Guinean
highlanders and Solomon Islanders Taro Yamauchi; 7. Tongan obesity: human
ecological implications of its 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.