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Health policy and disease in colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003
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Title
Health policy and disease in colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003 / Ka-che Yip, Yuen-sang Leung and Man-kong Wong.
ISBN
9781138943575
1138943576
9781315672373
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description
143 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2017
Series
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 118
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Disease-control policies, 1841-1894: Colonial priorities and local realities
3. Disease, scientific medicine, and public health: From the plague epidemic to the early twentieth-century
4. Disease, industrialization, and wartime destruction, 1920s-1945
5. Health, disease control, and post-war reconstruction, 1945-1960s
6. Epidemiological transition and disease prevention, 1960s-1980s
7. Diseases, socio-economic transformation, and transition to decolonization, 1980s-1997
8. Combating Global Epidemics in the Post-colonial State, 1997-2003
9. Conclusion.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Health Policy - history.
Health Services Administration.
Disease Outbreaks - history.
History, Modern 1601-.
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