Description |
1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 52 |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 52
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Contents |
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 [and others] -- Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States / W. Parker Frisbie [and others] -- 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 |
Summary |
A cohesive volume discussing health changes in the Asia-Pacific region over the last 20 years |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Health transition -- East Asia.
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Health transition -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Health transition -- Southeast Asia.
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Nutrition -- East Asia.
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Nutrition -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Nutrition -- Southeast Asia.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ōtsuka, Ryūtarō.
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Ulijaszek, Stanley J.
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ISBN |
0511286430 (electronic bk.) |
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0511542518 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511286438 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511542510 (electronic bk.) |
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