Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region
The Asia-Pacific region contains many islands, perhaps up to 100-000. The provision of public health and health care to small isolated groups poses particular challenges in the 21st century. The health of island populations has improved over the past 3 decades, but maintaining and improving current...
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2015
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| author | Hokama, T. Binns, Colin |
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| description | The Asia-Pacific region contains many islands, perhaps up to 100-000. The provision of public health and health care to small isolated groups poses particular challenges in the 21st century. The health of island populations has improved over the past 3 decades, but maintaining and improving current levels of health is made more difficult by emigration and the difficulty of maintaining communications. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-114382017-09-13T14:55:43Z Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region Hokama, T. Binns, Colin The Asia-Pacific region contains many islands, perhaps up to 100-000. The provision of public health and health care to small isolated groups poses particular challenges in the 21st century. The health of island populations has improved over the past 3 decades, but maintaining and improving current levels of health is made more difficult by emigration and the difficulty of maintaining communications. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11438 10.1177/1010539514561085 SAGE Publications Inc. restricted |
| spellingShingle | Hokama, T. Binns, Colin Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title | Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title_full | Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title_fullStr | Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title_short | Progress in island health in the Asia-Pacific region |
| title_sort | progress in island health in the asia-pacific region |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11438 |