Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511542510

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. This volume considers evidence concerning prehistoric migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it examines ways in which a health pattern dominated by under-nutrition and infection has been displaced in many ways, and is being displaced elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative diseases associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernization, migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region.

Review of the hardback:'I enthusiastically recommend this book. It will appear especially to students and scholars of anthropology, public health, globalization and Pacific peoples.'

Source: Anthropological Science

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
pp ix-x
- By Ryutaro Ohtsuka, President, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba City, Japan, Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
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1 - Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points?
pp 1-20
- By Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 51, Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK, Ryutaro Ohtsuka, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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2 - Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations
pp 21-43
- By Stephen Oppenheimer, Green College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HG, UK
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3 - Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region
pp 44-63
- By Ryutaro Ohtsuka, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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4 - Changing nutritional health in South East Asia
pp 64-87
- By Geoffrey C. Marks, Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, University of Queensland, Level 4, Public Health Building, Herston Road, Herston Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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5 - Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people
pp 88-100
- By Gary T. C. Ko, Hong Kong Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, 11, Chuen On Road, Tai Po New Territory, Hong Kong
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6 - Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders
pp 101-126
- By Taro Yamauchi, Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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7 - Tongan obesity: causes and consequences
pp 127-146
- By Tsukasa Inaoka, Department of Environmental Sociology, Saga University, 1, Honjo-machi Saga City, Japan, Yasuhiro Matsumura, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8636, Japan, Kazuhiro Suda, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Asahi-machi 4-1-40, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 062-8605, Japan
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8 - Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives
pp 147-191
- By Ember D. Keighley, International Health Institute, Brown University, Box G-B495, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Stephen T. McGarvey, International Health Institute, Brown University, Box G-B497, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Christine Quested, Nutrition Centre Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa Apia, Samoa, Charles McCuddin, Tafuna Family Health Center, Department of Health, Pago, Pago American Samoa 9679, Satupaitea Viali, Oceania University of Medicine, Samoa Apia Campus and Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, Ministry of Health Government of Samoa Apia, Samoa, Uto'ofili A. Maga, Department of Health, Pago, Pago American Samoa 96799
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9 - Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States
pp 192-218
- By W. Parker Frisbie, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1, University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712-0543, USA, Robert A. Hummer, The University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center, 1, University Station G1800, Austin, TX 78712-0543, USA, T. Elizabeth Durden, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, Youngtae Cho, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea
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10 - Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders
pp 219-233
- By Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 51, Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK
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11 - Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations
pp 234-253
- By Alistair Woodward, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand, Tony Blakely, Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, 23A Mein Street, Newtown Wellington, New Zealand
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12 - Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy?
pp 254-302
- By Robert Attenborough, The School of Archaeology and Anthropology, A. D. Hope Building, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Index
pp 303-313
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

1 - Health change in the Asia-Pacific region: disparate end-points?
pp 1-20

2 - Interactions of nutrition, genetics and infectious disease in the Pacific: implications for prehistoric migrations
pp 21-43

3 - Biocultural adaptation and population connectedness in the Asia-Pacific region
pp 44-63

4 - Changing nutritional health in South East Asia
pp 64-87

5 - Obesity and nutritional health in Hong Kong Chinese people
pp 88-100

6 - Modernization, nutritional adaptability and health in Papua New Guinea Highlanders and Solomon Islanders
pp 101-126

7 - Tongan obesity: causes and consequences
pp 127-146

8 - Nutrition and health in modernizing Samoans: temporal trends and adaptive perspectives
pp 147-191

9 - Health patterns of Pacific Islanders and Asians in the United States
pp 192-218

10 - Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders
pp 219-233

11 - Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations
pp 234-253

12 - Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy?
pp 254-302

Index
pp 303-313

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