Title Health policy and disease in colonial and Post-colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003 / by Ka-che Yip, Philip Yuen-sang Leung, and Timothy Man-Kong Wong

Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (151 pages) Series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Objectives of the study; Significance and contribution to scholarship; Disease control in the colonial and postcolonial state; Summary of chapters; Notes; 2. Disease-control policies, 1841-1894: Colonial priorities and local realities; The inception of colonial rule and its policy priorities; Racial attitudes and disease control; Housing, sanitary reforms, and disease control; Controlling infectious diseases; Hospital services; The plague epidemic; Notes 3. Disease, scientific medicine, and public health: From the plague epidemic to the early twentieth centuryScientific medicine and public health; Institutionalizing scientific medicine in Hong Kong; The plagues and rats; Tuberculosis and malaria; Beriberi and nutrition; The health of Hong Kong; Notes; 4. Disease, industrialization, and wartime destruction, 1920s-1945; Industrialization and workers' conditions before the Japanese occupation; Demographic changes and housing; Diseases and public health; Impact of the Sino-Japanese War: refugees and health, 1938-1941 Socio-economic conditions under the Japanese occupation, 1941-1945Food and survival; Diseases, sanitation, and health; Hospitals and medical care; The camps; Notes; 5. Health, disease control, and postwar reconstruction, 1945-1960s; Economic reconstruction; The refugee problem; Public health policy and priorities; Disease prevention and control; Disease prevention and control: public health services; Public medical services and personnel; Notes; 6. Epidemiological transition and disease prevention, 1960s-1980s; Moving forward: 1960s to 1980s; Housing and new towns Industrialization, urban services, and health protectionEpidemiological transition and communicable diseases; Public health services; Medical services and adjustment of health policy; Medical and health personnel; Notes; 7. Diseases, socio-economic transformation, and transition to decolonization, 1980s-1997; Transition to decolonization; The Basic Law: health and social services; Socio-economic developments: 1980s-1997; Cross-border health issues; Emerging infectious diseases; Re-emerging infectious diseases; Public health services; Public medical services; Traditional Chinese medicine Medical manpowerNotes; 8. Combating Global Epidemics in the Postcolonial State, 1997-2003; Postcolonial socio-economic environment; Chronic diseases; Environmental health; Reforming the health care system; Chinese medicine; Combating global epidemics; The SARS epidemic; Economic and political consequences; Reforming the health care system: lessons from the SARS epidemic; Notes; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of negotiations between these different groups. By considering developments over a long historical period, the book contrasts the different approaches in the periods of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, post-war reconstruction, transition to decolonization, and Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region within the People's Republic of China Notes Print version record Subject Medical policy -- China -- Hong Kong -- History Medical care -- China -- Hong Kong -- History Epidemiology -- China -- Hong Kong -- History Health services administration. Health Services Administration Patient Care Management Patient Care Management -- methods Health services administration Epidemiology Medical care Medical policy China -- Hong Kong Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Wong, Man Kong Timothy ISBN 9781317372974 1317372972

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