Health change in the Asia-Pacific region : biocultural and epidemiological approaches / ed. by Ryutaro Ohtsuka; Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

2007

Erschienen:

Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press ; 2007

Weitere Ausgaben:

Rezension: Ohtsuka, Ryutaro [Hrsg.], Health changes in the Asia-Pacific region

Reihe:

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology - 52

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ōtsuka, Ryūtarō, 1945- [Sonstige Person]
Ulijaszek, Stanley J., 1954- [Sonstige Person]
Ohtsuka, Ryutaro [HerausgeberIn]

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Publisher description

ISBN:

978-0-521-83792-7

0-521-83792-8

Nlm:

WA 105

2007 J-002

Themen:

Anthropology, Cultural
Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
Aufsatzsammlung
Health Transition
Health transition
Nutrition
Nutritional Status
Public Health
Socioeconomic Factors
Wirtschaftsentwicklung

Anmerkungen:

Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points? / Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations / Stephen Oppenheimer -- Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- Changing nutritional health in South East Asia / Geoffrey C. Marks -- Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people / Gary T.C. Ko -- Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinean highlanders and Solomon Islanders / Taro Yamauchi -- Tongan obesity: human ecological implications of its causes and consequences / Tsukasa Inaoka, Yasuhiro Matsumura and Kazuhiro Suda -- Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives / Ember D. Keighley ... [et al.] -- Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States / W. Parker Frisbie ... [et al.] -- Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations / Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely -- Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy? / Robert Attenborough. - Includes bibliographical references. - Formerly CIP

Umfang:

VIII, 313 S ; graph. Darst ; 24cm

Weitere IDs:

2006036793

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

520458168