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Public health in Asia and the Pacific :

0203007565

0415359627

9780203007563

9780415359627

b763114

Public health in Asia and the Pacific :

[Book]

historical and comparative perspectives /

edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson.

New York :

Routledge,

2008.

xi, 320 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ;

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public health in Asia and the Pacific : an introduction / Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson -- Invisible borders : Hong Kong, China and the imperatives of public health / Kerrie L. MacPherson -- History of public health in modern Japan : the road to becoming the healthiest nation in the world / Masahira Anesaki -- A history of public health in Korea / In-Sok Yeo -- History of public health in modern India : 1857-2005 / Radhika Ramasubban -- Public health in Thailand : changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context / Paul T. Cohen -- 'Could confinement be humanised'? : a modern history of leprosy in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais -- Conflict and collaboration in public health : the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dutch colonial government in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull -- The political determinants of public health in Timor-Leste : foreign domination and the path to independence / Sue Ingram -- From colonial economy to social equity : history of public health in Malaysia / Kai Hong Phua and Mary Lai Lin Wong -- 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 -- Public health and the clash of cultures : the Philippine cholera epidemics / Willie T. Ong -- Public health in Australia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Milton J. Lewis -- Papua New Guinea : epidemiological transition, public health and the Pacific / Vicki Luker -- History of public health in Pacific Island countries / Richard Taylor.

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Takes a comprehensive look at public health across Asia and the Pacific. Will appeal to those studying public health from both a sociological and bio-medical perspective, as well as Asian studies scholars. M J Lewis, University Sydney, Australia.

Public health-- Asia.

Public health-- Islands of the Pacific.

Cultural Characteristics.

Developing Countries.

History, Modern 1601-.

Preventive Medicine.

Public Health-- history.

Public Health.

Socioeconomic Factors.

15.75 history of Asia.

44.10 public health service: general.

Gesundheitsförderung

Gesundheitswesen.

Health care.

Kulturvergleich.

Public health.

Asia.

Australia.

Pacific Islands.

Asia.

Asia.

Asien

Asien.

Asien.

Ozeanien

Ozeanien.

Pacific Ocean, Islands of the Pacific.

Pacific region.

Pazifischer Raum.

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Lewis, Milton James.

Macpherson, Kerrie L.,1950-

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