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Migration and health in Asia / edited by Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in population and migrationPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203013565
  • 9780203013564
  • 9780415363198
  • 0415363195
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migration and health in Asia.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/095 22
LOC classification:
  • RA525 .M535 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction: understanding migration and health in / Asia SANTOSH JATRANA, ELSPETH GRAHAM AND -- chapter 2 Population movement in Indonesia: implications for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS / GRAEME HUGO -- chapter 3 Market bound: relocation and disjunction in Northwest / Laos CHRIS LYTTLETON -- chapter 4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS: the case of Singapore THERESA WONG AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH -- chapter 5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore / SANTOSH JATRANA -- chapter 6 Anaemia among migrant and non-migrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas, the Philippines / ALAN BANZON FERANIL -- chapter 7 The Filipinos in Sabah: unauthorised, unwanted and unprotected / MARUJA M.B. ASIS -- chapter 8 Migration, differential access to health services and civil society's responses in Japan / KEIKO YAMANAKA -- chapter 9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China / XIANG BIAO -- chapter 10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrant-sending region of Bangladesh / RANDALL S. KUHN -- chapter 11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male out-migrants: a study of rural Bihar, India / ARCHANA K. ROY AND PARVEEN NANGIA -- chapter 12 Some policy issues on migrant health / GAVIN W. JONES.
Summary: This important and timely collection is the first single-volume examination of the relationship between 'migration' and 'health' in an Asian context. The essays use both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate interdisciplinary issues of he.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This important and timely collection is the first single-volume examination of the relationship between 'migration' and 'health' in an Asian context. The essays use both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate interdisciplinary issues of he.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: understanding migration and health in / Asia SANTOSH JATRANA, ELSPETH GRAHAM AND -- chapter 2 Population movement in Indonesia: implications for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS / GRAEME HUGO -- chapter 3 Market bound: relocation and disjunction in Northwest / Laos CHRIS LYTTLETON -- chapter 4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS: the case of Singapore THERESA WONG AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH -- chapter 5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore / SANTOSH JATRANA -- chapter 6 Anaemia among migrant and non-migrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas, the Philippines / ALAN BANZON FERANIL -- chapter 7 The Filipinos in Sabah: unauthorised, unwanted and unprotected / MARUJA M.B. ASIS -- chapter 8 Migration, differential access to health services and civil society's responses in Japan / KEIKO YAMANAKA -- chapter 9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China / XIANG BIAO -- chapter 10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrant-sending region of Bangladesh / RANDALL S. KUHN -- chapter 11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male out-migrants: a study of rural Bihar, India / ARCHANA K. ROY AND PARVEEN NANGIA -- chapter 12 Some policy issues on migrant health / GAVIN W. JONES.

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