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 problems of infectious diseases. This double disease burden poses demanding questions concerning the organisation of health care, allocation of scarce resources and strategies for disease prevention, control and treatment; and it threatens not only improvement in health status but economic development in the many poorer countries of the Asia Pacific region.This b…
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Weitere Autoren: MacPherson, Kerrie L. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-21169-0
- EAN: 9781136211690
- Produktnummer: 14500104
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'148 KB
- Abbildungen: 18 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 7 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 11 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
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Milton J. Lewis was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, 1989- 2006 and is now at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Australia. Kerrie L. MacPherson is an Associate Professor of History, the Kadoorie Institute, University of Hong Kong.
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