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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.461; 362.1/095
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Health aspects - Asia; Immigrants - Health and hygiene - Asia; Immigrants - Family relationships - Asia; AIDS (Disease) - Asia; SARS (Disease) - Asia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JatranaSantosh ToyotaMika YeohBrenda S. A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Population movement in Indonesia; 3 Market bound; 4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS; 5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore; 6 Anaemia among migrant and non-migrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas, the Philippines; 7 The Filipinos in Sabah; 8 Migration, differential access to health services and civil society's responses in Japan ; 9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrantsending region of Bangladesh; 11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male outmigrants; 12 Some policy issues on migrant health; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the health of those who move, those who are left behind, and the communities that receive migrants.This volume brings together some of the increasing number of researchers who are studying health and migration in Asia - a continent which is a major exporter and importer of human resources. Using both qu
• Titolo autorizzato: Migration and health in Asia
• ISBN: 1-134-22851-1; 1-134-22852-X; 1-280-29183-4; 9786610291830; 0-203-01356-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348223503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in population and migration.