Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Measurement of Working Capacity in Populations

Work capacity: methodology in a tropical environment

pp 1-30

Ventilatory capacity in tropical populations: constitutional and environmental influences

pp 31-50

Is measurement of aerobic capacity a realistic objective?

pp 51-56

Functional Consequences of Malnutrition

Malnutrition, work output and energy needs

pp 57-76

The role of working women in a rural environment when nutrition is marginally adequate: problems of assessment

pp 77-84

Defining anaemia and its effect on physical work capacity at high altitudes in the Bolivian Andes

pp 85-106

Marginal malnutrition in childhood: implications for adult work capacity and productivity

pp 107-140

Marginal energy malnutrition: some speculations on primary energy sparing mechanisms

pp 141-164

Growth, Stature and Muscular Efficiency

Growth, stature and fitness of children in tropical areas

pp 165-180

Ethnic and Socio-Cultural Differences in Working Capacity

Genetics of working capacity

pp 181-192

Working capacity in different African groups

pp 193-204

Environmental, genetic and leg mass influences on energy expenditure

pp 205-214

Sociocultural influences on the working capacity of elderly Nepali men

pp 215-226

Energy Expenditure and Endemic Disease

Malaria: working capacity in a holo- and mesoendemic region of Liberia

pp 227-234

Schistosomiasis: field studies of energy expenditure in agricultural workers in the Sudan

pp 235-248

Research Models in Tropical Ecosystems

Biosocial consequences of illness among small scale farmers: a research design

pp 249-276

The tea plantation as a research ecosystem

pp 277-288

Index

pp 289-297