Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

by Yuen Sang Leung, Man Kong Timothy Wong, Ka-Che Yip

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138943576
• ISBN13: 9781138943575
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages