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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495893203321

Autore

Mosk Carl

Titolo

Making health work : human growth in modern Japan / / Carl Mosk [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1996

ISBN

0-585-06286-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 156 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Studies in demography ; ; 8

Disciplina

573/.6/0952

Soggetti

Quality of life - Japan

Human growth - Japan

Anthropometry - Japan

Anthropometry

Quality of Life

Nutrition Surveys - Japan

Body Constitution - Japan

Public Policy - Japan

Quality of Life - Japan

Physical Examination

Nutrition Assessment

Social Control Policies

Health Surveys

Social Sciences

Life

Biometry

Investigative Techniques

Physiological Phenomena

Philosophy

Epidemiologic Measurements

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Policy

Data Collection

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Phenomena and Processes

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Social Control, Formal

Epidemiologic Methods

Diagnosis

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms



Public Health

Sociology

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Humanities

Environment and Public Health

Quality of Health Care

Delivery of Health Care

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Body Constitution

Nutrition Surveys

Public Policy

Sociology & Social History

Social Conditions

Japan Population

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Secular Trend, 1900-1985. 1. Introduction. 2. Secular Trends in Anthropometric Measures of Human Growth and Their Relation to Net Nutritional Intake -- pt. II. The Market, Entitlements, and Human Growth. 3. The Tokugawa Legacy. 4. Population Quality in an Era of Balanced Economic Growth, 1880-1920. 5. Enterprise, Community, and Human Growth in an Era of Unbalanced Economic Growth, 1920-1940. 6. Conclusion.