Many treatable illnesses are in decline, but many other conditions are on the increase.
In particular, non-communicable, 'lifestyle' illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes are growing rapidly. Diseases of Globalization draws on primary case study material primarily from societies in the Pacific region undergoing modernization, providing invaluable information for tracking and assessing the full impacts of the changes. The move from subsistence to cash economies, brings with it changes in diet, alcohol consumption and high levels of smoking. Growing divisions of wealth add to the problems, bringing the diseases relating to poverty and malnourishment, and also those caused by affluence and over-consumption. This is the first fully comprehensive and the most current account of air pollution science and it impact on human health published to date.