UID:
almahu_9949598596902882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) :
,
color illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003318163
,
1003318169
,
1000953947
,
9781000953909
,
1000953904
,
9781000953947
Series Statement:
Cold War in Asia
Content:
"Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. Competing models of development with different political ideologies and economic enterprises increasingly influenced Asian countries in their efforts to build modern nations after WWII. Looking at examples from China, Japan, both Koreas, India, and Indonesia, the contributors to this volume look at how a range of Asian countries handled this post-colonial challenge. Health became a pivotal area that sustained the political discourse of differentiating one type of society from the other and promoting each system's advantages over the other's during the Cold War. Central to the discourse of a just society and the well-being of citizens was the promotion of public health and welfare for the people. The right to health was considered a fundamental human right as well as an essential social justice. A healthy population was also a prerequisite for national economic prosperity. Public health in post-war Asia was, therefore, a sociopolitical matter as well as a concern for the well-being of individuals. The health of the people demonstrated the advancement of a nation and provided the insurance for economic productivity and national prosperity. An essential read for historians and policy-makers of public health, and historians of Asia during the Cold War"--
Note:
"Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People's Health in Socialist China / Liping Bu -- Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication / Junho Jung -- Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961-1988 / Park Yunjae -- Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care / Takakazu Yamagishi -- Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 / Shirish N Kavadi -- Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998 / Vivek Neelakantan
Additional Edition:
Print version: Public health and Cold War politics in Asia Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2024] ISBN 9781032330921
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
DOI:
10.4324/9781003318163
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003318163
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