Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region: (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)
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Ryutaro Ohtsuka (Contributor) Stanley J. Ulijaszek (Contributor)
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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.
About the Author
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.
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- Contributor: Ryutaro Ohtsuka
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521837927
- Number of Pages: 324
- Packaged Dimensions: 158x235x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 600
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2007-05-24
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: 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.
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