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Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific : Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases.
"Chronic diseases--cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes--are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 Health transitions and the double disease burden in Asian and Pacific countries: some introductory observations; 2 Two health transitions in Australia: the Western and the Indigenous; 3 Health transitions: Hong Kong and China and the double disease burden; 4 Health transition and the rising threat of chronic non-communicable diseases in India; 5 The double disease burden in Asia and the Pacific: Japan and its diseases; 6 Challenges of, and responses to, the double disease burden in Korea.
- 7 Good health at low cost: the Sri Lankan experience8 Double disease burden in Thailand: economic growth and public provisioning; 9 Health transition in Viet Nam: resolving past priorities and meeting new challenges; 10 Singapore: health policy and programming in historical perspective and social, political and economic context; 11 Learning from the past: changing policies concerning the double disease burden in Malaysia; 12 Dealing with difficult diseases: renovating primary health care to deal with chronic conditions in Indonesia.
- 13 Evolution, revolution and devolution: a cross-sectional analysis of the emergence of the double disease burden in the Philippines14 The double disease burden in Papua New Guinea; 15 The double disease burden in Pacific Island states (except Papua New Guinea); 16 Asia and Pacific health transitions: retrospect and prospect; Index.