Health Change in the Asia-Pacific RegionRyutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley J. Ulijaszek Cambridge University Press, 24 mag 2007 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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adults agriculture American Journal American Samoa API population Asia-Pacific region Asian associated Australia Austronesian birth blood pressure body fatness body mass index cardiovascular disease consumption Cook Islands countries death decline diabetes mellitus diet dietary economic ethnic European falciparum gene genetic glucose Guinea Highlands Hong Kong Chinese Huli Human Biology hypertension increased Indonesia infant mortality infections intake Islander populations Journal of Obesity kg/m² Lapita levels lifestyle malaria Malaysia Maori McGarvey Medical Melanesia migration modernization National non-Hispanic whites non-Maori Obesity and Related Oceania Ohtsuka overweight and obesity Pacific Islander Papua New Guinea patterns Philippines physical activity PNG’s Polynesians Port Moresby prevalence of obesity race/ethnic Rarotonga Related Metabolic Disorders reported risk factors rural semi-modernized social Solomon Islands South East Asia Statistics subsistence survey Table Tongan traditional trends type 2 diabetes Ulijaszek urban village Wallacea women World Health Organization Yamauchi Zealand