Author: William Ronald Irlam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959967708
Category : Brewing industry
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Sectoral Study of the Food, Drink and Tobacco Manufacturing Industry in Papua and New Guinea
Author: William Ronald Irlam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959967708
Category : Brewing industry
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959967708
Category : Brewing industry
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Drinking Smoke
Author: Mac Marshall
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives. The author uses a relatively new concept called a syndemic—the synergistic interaction of two or more afflictions contributing to a greater burden of disease in a population—to focus at once on the health of a community, political and economic structures, and the wider physical and social environment and ultimately provide an in-depth analysis of smoking’s negative health impact in Oceania. In Drinking Smoke the idea of a syndemic is applied to the current health crisis in the Pacific, where the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease continues to rise, and the case is made that smoking tobacco in the form of industrially manufactured cigarettes is the keystone of the contemporary syndemic in Oceania. The author shows how tobacco consumption (particularly cigarette smoking after World War II) has become the central interstitial element of a syndemic that produces most of the morbidity and mortality Pacific Islanders suffer. This syndemic is made up of a bundle of diseases and conditions, a set of historical circumstances and events, and social and health inequities most easily summed up as “poverty.” He calls this the tobacco syndemic and argues that smoking is the crucial behavior—the “glue”—holding all of these diseases and conditions together. Drinking Smoke is the first book-length examination of the damaging tobacco syndemic in a specific world region. It is a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Pacific studies, history, and economic globalization, as well as for public health practitioners and those working in allied health fields. More broadly the book will appeal to anyone concerned with disease interaction, the social context of disease production, and the full health consequences of the global promotional efforts of Big Tobacco.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives. The author uses a relatively new concept called a syndemic—the synergistic interaction of two or more afflictions contributing to a greater burden of disease in a population—to focus at once on the health of a community, political and economic structures, and the wider physical and social environment and ultimately provide an in-depth analysis of smoking’s negative health impact in Oceania. In Drinking Smoke the idea of a syndemic is applied to the current health crisis in the Pacific, where the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease continues to rise, and the case is made that smoking tobacco in the form of industrially manufactured cigarettes is the keystone of the contemporary syndemic in Oceania. The author shows how tobacco consumption (particularly cigarette smoking after World War II) has become the central interstitial element of a syndemic that produces most of the morbidity and mortality Pacific Islanders suffer. This syndemic is made up of a bundle of diseases and conditions, a set of historical circumstances and events, and social and health inequities most easily summed up as “poverty.” He calls this the tobacco syndemic and argues that smoking is the crucial behavior—the “glue”—holding all of these diseases and conditions together. Drinking Smoke is the first book-length examination of the damaging tobacco syndemic in a specific world region. It is a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Pacific studies, history, and economic globalization, as well as for public health practitioners and those working in allied health fields. More broadly the book will appeal to anyone concerned with disease interaction, the social context of disease production, and the full health consequences of the global promotional efforts of Big Tobacco.
Economics in Papua New Guinea
Author: Jim Lamont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Sources of Asian/Pacific Economic Information
Author: Euan Blauvelt
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
More than 5,000 entries, principal sources of economic data on Asia, include, wherever possible, the full title of the source publication in the language of origin; name of the issuing body; language of publication; date of publication and number of pages; and English-language summary of contents. Each volume includes an alphabetical index and a subject index arranged alphabetically by country within each subject.
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
More than 5,000 entries, principal sources of economic data on Asia, include, wherever possible, the full title of the source publication in the language of origin; name of the issuing body; language of publication; date of publication and number of pages; and English-language summary of contents. Each volume includes an alphabetical index and a subject index arranged alphabetically by country within each subject.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Man in New Guinea
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A New Guinea Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
A New Guinea Bibliography: Economics, Commerce, Transport, Psychology and Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Financial Institutions and Markets in South-west Pacific
Author: Michael T. Skully
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349041157
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349041157
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description