Making Health Work

Human Growth in Modern Japan

Carl Mosk

• Editorial: University of California Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520324299
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Demografía

Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Índice

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface and
• PART I Secular Trend, 1900-1985
• CHAPTER I Introduction
• POPULATION QUALITY
• ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES
• COEVOLUTION
• GROSS AND NET NUTRITION
• ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
• CHAPTER 2 Secular Trends
• THE SECULAR IMPROVEMENT IN HEIGHT, WEIGHT, AND CHEST GIRTH, 1901-1985
• INDEXES OF NUTRITION, PUBLIC HEALTH
• LONG-TERM DETERMINANTS OF THE ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES, 1901-1979
• SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDIX
• PART 11 The Market, Entitlements, and Human Growth
• CHAPTER 3 The Tokugawa Legacy
• THE BAKUHAN SYSTEM AND THE EXPANSION OF RICE CULTIVATION DURING THE EARLY TOKUGAWA PERIOD
• HOUSEHOLD, LINEAGE, AND THE MARKET DURING THE LATE TOKUGAWA PERIOD
• COMMUNITY AND ENTITLEMENTS
• THE LEGACY: THE STRENGTH OF THE MARKET AND THE BALKANIZATION OF ENTITLEMENTS
• CHAPTER 4 Population Quality in an Era of Balanced Economic
• THE ECONOMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY OF BALANCED GROWTH
• COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT POLICY
• ENTERPRISE AND THE FEMALE FACTORY WORKER
• REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF YOUNG MALE HEIGHT
• CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
• CHAPTER 5 Enterprise, Community, and Human Growth in an Era of Unbalanced Economic Growth, 1920-1940 A CHANGING MARKET ENVIRONMENT
• CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN REGIONAL DIFFERENTIALS IN POPULATION QUALITY
• TENANCY, PADDY PRODUCTION, POPULATION QUALITY, AND AGRICULTURAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
• INDUSTRIAL REGIONS, INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS, AND ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES
• THE EMERGENCE OF GOVERNMENT WELFARE POLICY IN INTERWAR JAPAN
• CHAPTER 6 Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index