In the 1990s Southeast Asia became prominent in discussions of globalization. Comparative studies often pointed to the region’s capitalist economies as exemplars of pro-globalization development strategies, countries whose economic and political fortunes have been tied (for better or worse) to a deepening embrace of global trade and investment. The region’s sudden economic reversal in 1997-98 c...

Neglect of human rights that compromises health outcomes, the combination of high population density and domestic livestock that encourages zoonoses, claims over viral sovereignty, and an emphasis on health tourism that creates dual standards of care: too often health in southeast Asia is in the news for the wrong reasons. Today’s Lancet reports good news from the region as well as disappointme...

Figure 1 Countries of Southeast Asia than Europe’s (786 million vs. 628 million, United Nations 1999, pp. 442–3). This dramatic reversal is the product of a lag, of about a century, in the demographic transitions of the two regions. Fertility began to decline in several northwestern Europe countries during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and spread to all of Europe over the first hal...

Although the incidence of diabetes is rising in Southeast Asia, there is limited information regarding the incidence and manifestation of insulin-associated hypoglycemia. The aim of the present review was to discuss what is currently known regarding insulin-associated hypoglycemia in Southeast Asia, including its known incidence and impact in the region, and how the Southeast Asian population w...

Asia is home to the largest population of people living in informal settlements and slums. Its southern and eastern sub regions house over 80% of slum dwellers in the entire region. The most notable success stories in Asia, in terms of decreasing slum growth significantly, have occurred in South-East Asia, where policies implemented between the 1970’s to early 2000’s have strongly impacted the ...

Recent studies have identified a Pacific lineage (2E) of JC polyomavirus (also designated as JC virus or JCV) that occurs in both Island Southeast Asia and Oceania, but not in mainland Asia. It has been postulated that this lineage traveled with Austronesian-speaking people who are now spread throughout Island Southeast Asia and Oceania (excluding Australia and inland and southern New Guinea). ...

Background There are more and more information about ESBLproducing organisms wide spreading in Europe and Southeast Asia in recent years [1]. A large amount of students from Southeast Asia are staying in Kazakhstan, which raises the question about the distribution of microorganisms and aggravation of epidemiological situation. In our study we investigated the prevalence of ESBLproducing microor...

Swidden agriculture is by far the dominant land use system in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia (SEA). It provides various valuable subsistence products to local farmers, mostly the poor ethnic minority groups. Controversially, it is also closely connected with a number of environmental issues. With the strengthening regional economic cooperation in SEA, swidden agriculture has experien...

In Southeast Asia α-thalassaemia, β-thalassaemia, haemoglobin (Hb) E and Hb Constant Spring (CS) are prevalent. The abnormal genes in different combinations lead to over 60 different thalassaemia syndromes, making Southeast Asia the locality with the most complex thalassaemia genotypes. The four major thalassaemic diseases are Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis (homozygous α-thalassaemia 1), homozygous ...