Table Of ContentNew Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives 38
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Yoshiro Higano
Peter Nijkamp E ditors
Disease, Human
Health, and
Regional Growth
and Development
in Asia
New Frontiers in Regional Science:
Asian Perspectives
Volume 38
Editor in Chief
Yoshiro Higano, University of Tsukuba
Managing Editors
Makoto Tawada (General Managing Editor), Aichi Gakuin University
Kiyoko Hagihara, Bukkyo University
Lily Kiminami, Niigata University
Editorial Board
Yasuhiro Sakai (Advisor Chief Japan), Shiga University
Yasuhide Okuyama, University of Kitakyushu
Zheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Toyohashi University of Technology
Saburo Saito, Fukuoka University
Makoto Okamura, Hiroshima University
Moriki Hosoe, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Budy Prasetyo Resosudarmo, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Shin-Kun Peng, Academia Sinica
Geoffrey John Dennis Hewings, University of Illinois
Euijune Kim, Seoul National University
Srijit Mishra, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Yizhi Wang, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Daniel Shefer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Akira Kiminami, The University of Tokyo
Jorge Serrano, National University of Mexico
Binh Tran-Nam, UNSW Sydney, RMIT University Vietnam
Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Development and Policies Research Center
Thai-Ha Le, RMIT University Vietnam
Advisory Board
PeterNijkamp(Chair,ExOfficioMemberofEditorialBoard),TinbergenInstitute
Rachel S. Franklin, Brown University
Mark D. Partridge, Ohio State University
Jacques Poot, University of Waikato
Aura Reggiani, University of Bologna
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
Thisseriesisaconstellationofworksbyscholarsinthefieldofregionalscienceand
inrelateddisciplinesspecificallyfocusingondynamisminAsia.
Asia is the most dynamic part of the world. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore
experiencedrapidandmiracleeconomicgrowthinthe1970s.Malaysia,Indonesia,
and Thailand followed in the 1980s. China, India, and Vietnam are now rising
countries in Asia and are even leading the world economy. Due to their rapid
economic development and growth, Asian countries continue to face a variety of
urgentissuesincludingregionalandinstitutionalunbalancedgrowth,environmental
problems, poverty amidst prosperity, an ageing society, the collapse of the bubble
economy,anddeflation,amongothers.
Asian countries are diversified as they have their own cultural, historical, and
geographical as well as political conditions. Due to this fact, scholars specializing
in regional science as an inter- and multi-discipline have taken leading roles in
providing mitigating policy proposals based on robust interdisciplinary analysis of
multifaceted regional issues and subjects in Asia. This series not only will present
unique research results from Asia that are unfamiliar in other parts of the world
because of language barriers, but also will publish advanced research results from
thoseregionsthathavefocusedonregionalandurbanissuesinAsiafromdifferent
perspectives.
The series aims to expand the frontiers of regional science through diffusion of
intrinsically developed and advanced modern regional science methodologies in
Asiaandotherareasoftheworld.Readerswillbeinspiredtorealizethatregional
andurbanissuesintheworldaresovastthattheirestablishedmethodologiesstill
have space for development and refinement, and to understand the importance of
the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach that is inherent in regional
scienceforanalyzingandresolvingurgentregionalandurbanissuesinAsia.
Topicsunderconsiderationinthisseriesincludethetheoryofsocialcostandbenefit
analysis and criteria of public investments, socio-economic vulnerability against
disasters,foodsecurityandpolicy,agro-foodsystemsinChina,industrialclustering
inAsia,comprehensivemanagementofwaterenvironmentandresourcesinariver
basin,theinternational trade bloc andfoodsecurity, migration andlabor marketin
Asia, land policy and local property tax, Information and Communication
Technology planning, consumer “shop-around” movements, and regeneration of
downtowns,amongothers.
Researchers who are interested in publishing their books in this Series
should obtain a proposal form from Yoshiro Higano (Editor in Chief,
[email protected])andreturnthecompletedformtohim.
Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/13039
(cid:129)
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Yoshiro Higano
Peter Nijkamp
Editors
Disease, Human Health,
and Regional Growth and
Development in Asia
Editors
AmitrajeetA.Batabyal YoshiroHigano
DepartmentofEconomics FacultyofLife&EnvironmentalScience
RochesterInstituteofTechnology UniversityofTsukuba
Rochester,NY,USA Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan
PeterNijkamp
AlexandruIoanCuzaUniversity
Iasi,Romania
JheronimusAcademyofDataScience
’s-Hertogenbosch,TheNetherlands
AdamMickiewiczUniversity
Poznan,Poland
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strange feeling, I could hear nothing, I
stood still. In the trees there was not even a
breath of air. “What is the matter with me
then?” I said to myself.... What was it?
Was it a presentiment? That mysterious
presentimentwhichtakesholdofthesenses
of men who have witnessed something,
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Who Knows? Guy de Maupassant.
Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the assistance of several scholars
dispersedthroughouttheworld.Therefore,wewouldliketothankthecontributors
oftheindividualchaptersofthisbookfortheirenthusiasticparticipationinthistime-
consuming project. The enthusiasm of the contributors is richly on display in the
thought-provoking chapters they have written on various aspects of the subject
matter of this book, namely, disease, human health, and regional growth and
developmentinAsia.
Batabyal would like to acknowledge the support he received from
Swapna B. Batabyal and Sanjana S. Batabyal during the long gestation period of
thisbook.Inaddition, hewouldliketorecognizethefinancialsupporthereceived
from the Gosnell endowment at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Finally, he
wouldliketodedicatethisbooktothememoryofSutapaB.Batabyal(1942–1973).
NijkampthankstheTinbergenInstituteinAmsterdamandA.MickiewiczUniversity
in Poznan, Poland, for providing an intellectually stimulating environment during
thepreparationofthisbook.
Rochester,NY,USA AmitrajeetA.Batabyal
Tsukuba,Japan YoshiroHigano
’s-Hertogenbosch,TheNetherlands PeterNijkamp
November2018
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Contents
PartI Introduction
1 IntroductiontoDisease,HumanHealth,andRegional
GrowthandDevelopmentinAsia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
AmitrajeetA.Batabyal,YoshiroHigano,andPeterNijkamp
PartII SouthAsia
2 FoodConsumption,CalorieIntakeandUndernourishment
inIndia:TheRecentEvidenceonRoleofWelfareSchemes. . . . . . 21
RanjanRayandKompalSinha
3 TheGeographyofExcessWeightinUrbanIndia:
RegionalPatternsandLabourMarketandDietaryCorrelates. . . . 47
ArchanaDang,PushkarMaitra,andNidhiyaMenon
4 HealthSystemandHealthExpenditureProductivity
ChangesinIndianStates:HasItChangedfortheBetter
inthePost-reformPeriod?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
DebashisAcharya,BireshK.Sahoo,andT.K.Venkatachalapathy
5 GenderPerspectivesinHealth-RelatedSituationinRural
Bangladesh:AMicrolevelStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
WardatulAkmam
6 AssessingHealth-RelatedSituationoftheRuralElderlyin
Bangladesh:AMicrolevelStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Md.FakrulIslamandWardatulAkmam
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PartIII SoutheastAsia
7 DoTradeReformsPromoteNutritionalStatus?
EvidencefromIndonesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
AriKuncoro,YuriMansury,AriantoA.Patunru,
andBudyP.Resosudarmo
8 HealthInequityinthePhilippines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
MiannS.Banaag,ManuelM.Dayrit,andRonaldU.Mendoza
PartIV EastAsia
9 AnInvestigationofMedicalExpendituresinHospitals
andClinicsUsingPropensityScores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
NorikoIshikawaandMototsuguFukushige
PartV Oceania
10 HealthandDistancetoHealthcareinPapuaNewGuinea. . . . . . . . 203
AliceLouiseKassensandYanavanderMeulenRodgers
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Contributors
Debashis Acharya School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli,
Hyderabad,India
Wardatul Akmam Department of Sociology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi,
Bangladesh
Miann S. Banaag Ateneo Policy Center, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon
City,Philippines
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of
Technology,Rochester,NY,USA
ArchanaDang DepartmentofEconomics,DelhiSchoolofEconomics,University
ofDelhi,Delhi,India
Manuel M. Dayrit Ateneo de Manila University School of Medicine and Public
Health,QuezonCity,Philippines
Mototsugu Fukushige Graduate School of Economics, School of Economics,
OsakaUniversity,Toyonaka,Osaka,Japan
YoshiroHigano UniversityofTsukuba,TsukubaScienceCity,Japan
NorikoIshikawa FacultyofEconomics,KonanUniversity,Kobe,Japan
Md. FakrulIslam Department ofSocial Work, University of Rajshahi,Rajshahi,
Bangladesh
Alice Louise Kassens Business and Economics Department, Roanoke College,
Salem,VA,USA
Ari Kuncoro Department of Economics, University of Indonesia, Jakarta,
Indonesia
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