Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415643825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 768 str.

Siân M. Griffiths;Jin Ling Tang;Eng Kiong Yeoh

Opis

Global public health is of growing concern to most governments and populations, nowhere more so than in Asia, the world's largest and most populous continent. Whilst major advances have been made in controlling infectious diseases through public health measures as well as clinical medical treatments, the world now faces other challenges including ageing populations and the epidemic crisis of obesity and non-communicable diseases. New emerging infections continue to develop and the growing threats to health due to environmental pollution and climate change increase the need for resilience and sustainability. These threats to health are global in nature, and this Handbook will explore perspectives on current public health issues in South, Southeast and East Asia, informing global as well as regional debate. Whilst many books cite Western examples of the development of global public health, this Handbook brings together both Western and Eastern scholarship, creating a new global public health perspective suitable to face modern challenges in promoting the population's health. This Handbook is essential reading not only for students, professionals and scholars of global public health and related fields but is also written to be accessible to those with a general interest in the health of Asia.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  Part 1: Historical Context  Introduction to Part 1: Historical Context  1. Historical Perspectives in Public Health – Experiences from Hong Kong  Part 1: Introductory Concepts  Introduction to Part 1: Introductory Concepts  2. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Relevance for Low-Income Countries in Asia  3. Migration and Health: Lessons from China  4. The Challenges of Ageing in Japan  5. Developing Public Health Infrastructure in India  6. Public Health in the Age of Genomics, ‘Big Data’ and Massively Collaborative Global Science  7. Research Challenges for Public Health in Asia  8. Developing the Public Workforce in Asia  Part 2: The Public and Public Health  Introduction: Epidemiology – Research Methods in Public Health  9. Epidemiology: From Observation to Public Health Action  10. Evidence-Based Decision Making in Health Care  11. The Challenges of Cancer in China  Part 3: Communicable Diseases  Introduction to Part 3: Communicable Diseases  12. Chronic Neglected Diseases of Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead  13. Role of Government Agencies in Controlling Disease: Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection as a Case Study  14. Centre for Disease Control’s Role in China: The Case of Shanghai  15. Reflections on Public Health Challenges for the HIV Epidemic among Men who have Sex with Men in China  16. Tuberculosis Control in Asia: The Case of China  17. Viral Hepatitis in Southeast Asia 18. Emerging Infectious Diseases in Asia  19. Climate Change and its Impact on the Patterns of Disease with a Case Study on Malaria in the People’s Republic of China  Part 4: Environment  Introduction to Part 4: Environment  20. Climate Change and Health  21. Case Study on the Climate and Health Council: Engaging Health Professions in Change  22. Air Pollution: The Public Health Challenge  23. Water: The Public Health Challenges  24. Food Security and Safety in China and Hong Kong  25. Responding to Disasters in Low-Income Countries  26. Lessons for Public Health from the 2011 Japanese Earthquake  27. Public Health Roles in Response to the 2011 Thailand Flooding  28. Occupational Health  Part 5: Health Improvement  Introduction to Part 5: Prevention Rather than Cure – the Challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases  29. Policy for, and the Prevention of, Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases in the Asia-Pacific Region  30. The Challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases in Asia: The Case of Diabetes  31. Community Outreach to Prevent Diabetes in Hong Kong: Diabetes Hongkong as a Case Study  32. Challenges of Non-Communicable Diseases in China  33. Mental Health  34. Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic: Lessons from Hong Kong  35. Public Health Case Law Study: Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products  36. Screening for Cancer: Colorectal Cancer and Breast Cancer in Hong Kong as Case Studies  Part 6: Health Services  Introduction: Health Services  37. Child and Teen Health in Southeast Asia  38. Non-Government Organisations and Health: A Case Study on Save the Children, China  39. Providing Services for Women’s Health  40. Developing Primary Care in China  41. Conceptualising the Integration of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Health Systems: Patients, Policies, Professions and Providers  42. Health Systems in Asia: Achievements and Challenges  43. Health Care Financing in Taiwan  44. The Challenge of Managing Health Human Resources: A Case Study on the Philippines  45. Medical Tourism in Thailand  46. Comparative Health Systems in Asia  Part 7: Future Challenges 47. The Future

O autorze

Siân M. Griffiths is Emeritus Professor in the School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Health and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London, UK. Jin Ling Tang is Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Primary Care and Director of the Shenzhen Institute of Public Health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Eng Kiong Yeoh was Secretary of Health in the HKSAR until 2003 and is now Director of the School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.