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The Trade-Off between Female Fertility and Longevity during the Epidemiological Transition in the Netherlands. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2015
Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the relationship between women’s fertility and their post-reproductive longevity. In this study, we focus on the disposable soma theory, which posits that a negative relationship between women’s ...
Kaptijn R, Thomese F, Liefbroer AC, Van Poppel F, Van Bodegom D, Westendorp RG.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Determinants of hypertension in a young adult Ugandan population in epidemiological transition-the MEPI-CVD survey. [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2015
BackgroundHigh blood pressure is the principal risk factor for stroke, heart failure and kidney failure in the young population in Africa. Control of hypertension is associated with a larger reduction in morbidity and mortality in younger populations ...
Kayima J, Nankabirwa J, Sinabulya I, Nakibuuka J, Zhu X, Rahman M, Longenecker CT, Katamba A, Mayanja-Kizza H, Kamya MR.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Child pneumonia at a time of epidemiological transition

The Lancet Global Health, 2015
Harry Campbell, Harish Nair
doaj   +4 more sources

Wealth related inequalities in self reported morbidity: Positional objectivity or epidemiological transition?

Indian J Med Res, 2015
Background & objectives: Morbidity is self reported at a higher rate among the rich than the poor. However, objective measures suggest the contrary.
Prinja S, Jeyashree K, Rana S, Sharma A, Kumar R.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Modeling the hepatitis A epidemiological transition in Thailand

Vaccine, 2016
In most low- and middle-income countries, hepatitis A virus (HAV) is shifting or expected to shift from high endemicity to intermediate or low endemicity. A decreased risk of HAV infection will cause an increase in the average age at infection and will therefore increase the proportion of infections that results in severe disease.
Van Effelterre, Thierry, Marano, Cinzia, Jacobsen, Kathryn H.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The epidemiological transition and its interpretations

Демографическое обозрение, 2021
A critical analysis of A. Omran's theory of epidemiological transition (ET) and its various interpretations. The periodization of ET proposed by Omran is questioned, and the differentiation of the two "epidemiological revolutions" by M.
Anatoly Vishnevsky
doaj   +1 more source

Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial-era London.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023
OBJECTIVES The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non-communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high to low levels of mortality and fertility ...
Samantha L. Yaussy, S. DeWitte, Gail M Hughes-Morey   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mitigating the Rising Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases through Locally Generated Evidence-Lessons from Tanzania

Annals of Global Health, 2023
Background: The burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is rapidly increasing globally, and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the brunt of it. Tanzania is no exception. Addressing the rising burden of NCDs in this context calls for renewed
Harrieth P. Ndumwa, Davis E. Amani, Jackline E. Ngowi, Belinda J. Njiro, Castory Munishi, Erick A. Mboya, Doreen Mloka, Amani I. Kikula, Emmanuel Balandya, Paschal Ruggajo, Anna T. Kessy, Emilia Kitambala, Ntuli Kapologwe, James T. Kengia, James Kiologwe, Omary Ubuguyu, Bakari Salum, Appolinary Kamuhabwa, Kaushik Ramaiya, Bruno F. Sunguya   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Transition in Indonesia and Its Prevention: A Narrative Review

Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research, 2022
Introduction: Indonesia is undergoing an epidemiological transition, changing from a public health problem with the prevalence of a dominant infectious disease to a non-communicable disease.
Tri Siswati, B. Paramashanti, M. P. Rialihanto, Lukman Waris   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The epidemiological transition in Antananarivo, Madagascar: an assessment based on death registers (1900–2012) [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Madagascar today has one of the highest life expectancies in sub-Saharan Africa, despite being among the poorest countries in the continent.
Bruno Masquelier, Dominique Waltisperger, Osée Ralijaona, Gilles Pison, Arsène Ravélo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source