Public health and national reconstruction in post-war Asia : international influences, local transformations
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Public health and national reconstruction in post-war Asia : international influences, local transformations
(Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia, 100)
Routledge, 2017, c2015
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published: 2015
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows how international health standards were implemented, sometimes through the direct intervention of transnational organisations, and explores how indigenous traditions and local social and cultural concerns affected developments, with, in some cases, the construction of public health systems forming an important part of nation-building in post-war and post-independence countries. Throughout, the book relates developments in public health systems to people's health, demographic changes, and economic and social reconstruction projects.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2.Transition to Decolonization: the Search for a Health Policy in Postwar Hong Kong, 1949-1990 3. Diseases, Peasants and State-Building in China in the 1950s 4. People's Health and Socialist Reconstruction: Anti-Malaria Campaigns in China, 1950-1980 5. Two Different Paths of Healthcare System: North and South Koreas After Independence, 1945-1960 6. Indonesianisation of Social Medicine in the 1950s 7. Technologies of Desire and Moral Discourse of Health Politics in Thailand, 1950-2010 8. Impact of Government-Foundation Cooperation: Healthcare System Development in Postwar Japan 9. Medicine, Philanthropy and Nationhood: Tensions of Different Visions in India 10. Introducing North American Standards to South Asia: The Creation of a Modern Nursing Program in Sri Lanka
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