The Australia Research Council Asia Pacific Futures Research Network's 2007 Signature Conference
Victoria, Australia : The themes are as broad or as narrow as you would like them to be: a tool to think about health, wellbeing, mobility in Asia and the Pacific.
In public health, the term "transition" flags changes in the distribution of disease and changes in mortality and morbidity rates. The term is a gesture towards epidemiological transitions, health transitions and nutrition transitions - declining mortality rates from all causes, declining infant mortality rates, shifts from infectious to non-communicable disease. But we are also interested in the economic, social, political and cultural factors that produce such transitions: shifts from agricultural to industrial production, rural to urban settlements, subsistence to mono-cultivation and modern economies, population movements on a temporary and permanent basis, the remission of money within countries and throughout the region, forced population movement due to civil war, disaster and trafficking. Transitions have occurred also with respect to technology and values: the introduction of new technologies, procedures and drugs, ideals regarding body, diet and activity, the role of government in the provision of services. The themes are as broad or as narrow as you would like them to be: a tool to think about health, wellbeing, mobility in Asia and the Pacific.
Associated Workshops
Writing for Publication
Wednesday 27 June 2007
Bias-Free Health Planning
Wednesday 27 June 2007
Ethnographic Filmmaking Course
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 June 2007
Kathleen Nolan
Telephone: +61 3 9903 4047
Email: [email protected]
Fax: +61 3 9903 4508
Postal address:
Social Sciences and Health Research
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
PO Box 197, Caulfield East
VICTORIA 3145
Australia
Delivery address:
Social Sciences and Health Research
Level 4, Building F, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East
VICTORIA 3145
Australia
