Health and Medicine Under Capitalism
Subtitle: Korean Immigrants in Australia
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780838638491
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Family & Health; Health systems & services; Immigration & emigration; Personal & public health; Emigration And Immigration; Personal Health; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Politics/International Relations; Health Care Delivery; Emigration & Immigration; Health Care Issues; Australia; Health and hygiene; Immigrants; Koreans
Description: This book investigates health status and the use of health care including biomedicine, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and health food among Koreans in Australia and their relationships with those of Koreans in their homeland. The study addresses social change in Korea and its impact on people's health and on the supply and demand for biomedicine and Korean traditional herbal medicine. It also explores social origins of Korean migration to Australia, the settlement of Koreans in Australia with reference to work involvement and immigrant life, and the relationships between work, health status, and health care use from the perspectives of the Korean immigrants as well as the providers of biomedical and Korean traditional medicine.