The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration
of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the
world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much
faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging
problem of chronic diseases at the same time as they continue to
grapple with communicable diseases.
This book explores how disease patterns and health problems in
Asia and the Pacific, and collective responses to them, have been
shaped over time by cultural, economic, social, demographic,
environmental and political factors. With fourteen chapters, each
devoted to a country in the region, the authors take a comparative
and historical approach to the evolution of public health and
preventive medicine, and offer a broader understanding of the links
in a globalizing world between health on the one hand and culture,
economy, polity and society on the other.
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific presents the importance of
the non-medical context in the history of human disease, as well as
the significance of disease in the larger histories of the region.
It will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of
public health, the history of medicine, and those with a wider
interest in the Asia-Pacific region.
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