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Title Migration and health in Asia / edited by Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Routledge research in population and migration
Routledge research in population and migration.
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: understanding migration and health in / Asia SANTOSH JATRANA, ELSPETH GRAHAM AND -- chapter 2 Population movement in Indonesia: implications for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS / GRAEME HUGO -- chapter 3 Market bound: relocation and disjunction in Northwest / Laos CHRIS LYTTLETON -- chapter 4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS: the case of Singapore THERESA WONG AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH -- chapter 5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore / SANTOSH JATRANA -- chapter 6 Anaemia among migrant and non-migrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas, the Philippines / ALAN BANZON FERANIL -- chapter 7 The Filipinos in Sabah: unauthorised, unwanted and unprotected / MARUJA M.B. ASIS -- chapter 8 Migration, differential access to health services and civil society's responses in Japan / KEIKO YAMANAKA -- chapter 9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China / XIANG BIAO -- chapter 10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrant-sending region of Bangladesh / RANDALL S. KUHN -- chapter 11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male out-migrants: a study of rural Bihar, India / ARCHANA K. ROY AND PARVEEN NANGIA -- chapter 12 Some policy issues on migrant health / GAVIN W. JONES
Summary This important and timely collection is the first single-volume examination of the relationship between 'migration' and 'health' in an Asian context. The essays use both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate interdisciplinary issues of he
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects -- Asia
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- Asia
Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Asia
AIDS (Disease) -- Asia
SARS (Disease) -- Asia
Migrant labor.
Health services accessibility.
Public health.
Transients and Migrants
Emigration and Immigration
Health Services Accessibility
Public Health
migrant workers.
public health.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Public health
Migrant labor
Health services accessibility
AIDS (Disease)
Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects
Immigrants -- Family relationships
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene
SARS (Disease)
Asia
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Jatrana, Santosh.
Toyota, Mika.
Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
ISBN 0203013565
9780203013564
9780415363198
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