Public health in Asia and the Pacific
Subtitle: historical and comparative perspectives
By: edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson.
Contributors: Lewis, Milton James.; Macpherson, Kerrie L., 1950-
Series: Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415359627
Subjects: Public health -- Asia; Public health -- Pacific Islands; Public Health -- Asia; Public Health -- Australia; Public Health -- Pacific Islands; Cultural Characteristics -- Asia; Cultural Characteristics -- Australia; Cultural Characteristics -- Pacific Islands; Developing Countries -- Asia; Developing Countries -- Australia; Developing Countries -- Pacific Islands; History, Modern 1601- -- Asia; History, Modern 1601- -- Australia; History, Modern 1601- -- Pacific Islands; Preventive Medicine -- Asia; Preventive Medicine -- Australia; Preventive Medicine -- Pacific Islands; Public Health -- history -- Asia; Public Health -- history -- Australia; Public Health -- history -- Pacific Islands; Socioeconomic Factors -- Asia; Socioeconomic Factors -- Australia; Socioeconomic Factors -- Pacific Islands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public health in Asia and the Pacific: an introduction / Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson; title: Invisible borders: Hong Kong, China, and the imperatives of public health / Kerrie L. MacPherson; title: History of public health in modern Japan: the road to becoming the healthiest nation in the world / Masahira Anesaki; title: A history of public health in Korea / In-Sok Yeo; title: History of public health in modern India: 1857-2005 / Radhika Ramasubban; title: Public health in Thailand: changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context / Paul T. Cohen; title: Could confinement be humanised? A modern history of leprosy in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais; title: Conflict and collaboration in public health: the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dutch colonial government in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull; title: The political determinants of public health in Timor-Leste: foreign domination and the path to independence / Sue Ingram; title: From colonial economy to social equity: history of public health in Malaysia / Kai Hong Phua and Mary Lai Lin Wong; title: From colony to global city: public health strategies and the control of disease in Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kai Hong Phua, and Kelly Fu; title: Public health and the clash of cultures: the Philippine cholera epidemics / Willie T. Ong; title: Public health in Australia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Milton J. Lewis; title: Papua New Guinea : epidemiological transition, public health and the Pacific / Vicki Luker; title: History of public health in Pacific island countries / Richard Taylor.