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1008744
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b763114
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Public health in Asia and the Pacific : : historical and comparative perspectives /\ edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2008.
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Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ;; 11
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xi, 320 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0203007565
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: 0415359627
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: 9780203007563
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: 9780415359627
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Public health in Asia and the Pacific : an introduction / Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson -- Invisible borders : Hong Kong, China and the imperatives of public health / Kerrie L. MacPherson -- History of public health in modern Japan : the road to becoming the healthiest nation in the world / Masahira Anesaki -- A history of public health in Korea / In-Sok Yeo -- History of public health in modern India : 1857-2005 / Radhika Ramasubban -- Public health in Thailand : changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context / Paul T. Cohen -- 'Could confinement be humanised'? : a modern history of leprosy in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais -- Conflict and collaboration in public health : the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dutch colonial government in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull -- The political determinants of public health in Timor-Leste : foreign domination and the path to independence / Sue Ingram -- From colonial economy to social equity : history of public health in Malaysia / Kai Hong Phua and Mary Lai Lin Wong -- From colony to global city : public health strategies and the control of disease in Singapore / Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Kai Hong Phua, and Kelly Fu -- Public health and the clash of cultures : the Philippine cholera epidemics / Willie T. Ong -- Public health in Australia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Milton J. Lewis -- Papua New Guinea : epidemiological transition, public health and the Pacific / Vicki Luker -- History of public health in Pacific Island countries / Richard Taylor.
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Takes a comprehensive look at public health across Asia and the Pacific. Will appeal to those studying public health from both a sociological and bio-medical perspective, as well as Asian studies scholars. M J Lewis, University Sydney, Australia.
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Public health-- Asia.
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Public health-- Islands of the Pacific.
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15.75 history of Asia.
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44.10 public health service: general.
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Gesundheitsförderung
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Gesundheitswesen.
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Kulturvergleich.
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Public health.
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Public Health.
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Health care.
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Cultural Characteristics.
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Developing Countries.
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History, Modern 1601-.
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Preventive Medicine.
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Public Health-- history.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Asia.
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Australia.
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Pacific Islands.
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Asia.
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Asia.
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Asien
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Asien.
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Asien.
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Ozeanien
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Ozeanien.
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Pacific Ocean, Islands of the Pacific.
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Pacific region.
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Pazifischer Raum.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1095
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RA525.P67 2008
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2008 B-027
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WA 395P976 2008
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15.75bcl
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44.10bcl
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QX 795rvk
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Lewis, Milton James.
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Macpherson, Kerrie L.,1950-
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