Health change in the Asia-Pacific region
Subtitle: biocultural and epidemiological approaches
By: edited by Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley J. Ulijaszek.
Contributors: Ulijaszek, Stanley J.; Ōtsuka, Ryūtarō.
Series: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology -- 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780521837927
Subjects: Health transition -- Southeast Asia.; Health transition -- East Asia.; Anthropology, Cultural -- Far East.; Nutritional Status -- Asia, Southeastern.; Nutritional Status -- Far East.; Socioeconomic Factors -- Far East.; Socioeconomic Factors -- Asia, Southeastern.; Health Transition -- Far East.; Health Transition -- Pacific Islands.; Anthropology, Cultural -- Asia, Southeastern.; Anthropology, Cultural -- Pacific Islands.; Nutritional Status -- Pacific Islands.; Socioeconomic Factors -- Pacific Islands.; Health transition -- Islands of the Pacific.; Nutrition -- Southeast Asia.; Nutrition -- East Asia.; Nutrition -- Islands of the Pacific.; Health Transition -- Asia, Southeastern.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points? / Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Ryutaro Ohtsuka; value: Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations / Stephen Oppenheimer; value: Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region / Ryutaro Ohtsuka; value: Changing nutritional health in South East Asia / Geoffrey C. Marks; value: Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people / Gary T.C. Ko; value: Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea highlanders and Solomon Islanders / Taro Yamauchi; value: Tongan obesity: causes and consequences / Tsukasa Inaoka, Yasuhiro Matsumura and Kazuhiro Suda; value: Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives / Ember D. Keighley ... [et al.]; value: Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States / W. Parker Frisbie ... [et al.]; value: Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders / Stanley J. Ulijaszek; value: Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations / Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely; value: Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy? / Robert Attenborough.