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The epidemiologic transition and morbidity
Annales de démographie historique, 1989In essays about the theory of epidemiologic transition, Abdel Omran has argued that demographic change in the last century occurred in stages that can be characterized by their leading causes of death. The transition consists of a change in leading causes from infectious to degenerative and man-made diseases.
Riley, James Clifford, Alter, George
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Nutritional Transition and Associated Epidemiological Transition in India
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Overnutrition and associated health risks are no longer confined to high-income countries and have now become an emerging problem among the low- and middle-income countries. In India, overweight and obesity prevalence has doubled amongst men and has become more than one and a half times amongst women over a ten-year period, 2005 – 2015. The increase in
Shivani Gupta, Sangeeta Bansal
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The Epidemiological Transition
1993This volume is the product of "a workshop to discuss the changing demographic and epidemiologic profiles of developing countries and responses from the health sector to these changes. The Workshop...was held November 20-22 1991 at the National Academy of Sciences Georgetown facility in Washington D.C.
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Epidemiological transition in Morocco (1960-2015)
Médecine et Santé Tropicales, 2018Morocco is undergoing the third phase of its epidemiological transition. Mortality indicators have declined significantly. Life expectancy at birth has increased by 23 years over this 55-year study period. The total fertility rate has dropped from 7.06 in 1960 to 2.89 in 2015. The country is going through the epidemiological transition characterized by
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2015
Cohorts of children brought up in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century likely faced very high rates of infectious diseases, and their average stature turned out poor by modern standards, even falling for a series of cohorts. Coinciding with infectious diseases and their frequent epidemics then were severe rates of non-communicable ...
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Cohorts of children brought up in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century likely faced very high rates of infectious diseases, and their average stature turned out poor by modern standards, even falling for a series of cohorts. Coinciding with infectious diseases and their frequent epidemics then were severe rates of non-communicable ...
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Demographic and Epidemiological Transition in Africa
Tropical Doctor, 1978Experts from Cameroon Dahomey Gambia Ghana Upper Volta Kenya Liberia Madagascar Nigeria Central African Republic Mali Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania Togo Uganda and Zambia met in September 1970 at a conference convened by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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[From epidemiological transition to health transition].
Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial, 2008The "Epidemiological Transition" concept proposed by Abdel Omran in 1971 was the first theory attempting to explain the extraordinary progess that industrialized countries have achieved in health since the 18th century. Within the broader framework of the demographic transition, an important implication of this concept was that life expectancy in ...
F, Meslé, J, Vallin
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