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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...

Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline.

In recent years, Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for HIV has been acknowledged internationally as an efficacious and pivotal strategy for both HIV/AIDS prevention and referral into care and treatment. China started providing free VCT service by implementing the China CARES program in 51 community-based HIV/AIDS comprehensive care pilot centers in regions with the greatest number of HIV/AIDS cases in 2003. However, the rate of acceptance of VCT is unknown in some areas and is known to be low in other areas. This report presents the results of a study conducted in southwest China to find...