TY  - BOOK
TI  - Public health in East and SouthEast Asia: challenges and opportunities in the twenty- first century
SN  - 9781938169007
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - University of California
N1  - include index
N2  - Public Health in East and Southeast Asia presents an overview of the state of public health across this vast region and considers the challenges and prospects for its future advancement. It pays particular attention to how rapid economic progress has brought accelerated change, both demographic and epidemiological, to an area already marked by great heterogeneity in health status and public health systems. In comparative and thematically oriented chapters, leading scholars consider such issues as changes in values and lifestyles, infectious diseases, nutrition, tobacco, chronic diseases, accidents and injury, environmental health, occupational health, the effect of globalization, and health services
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