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epidemiologic transition: a standalone construct

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epidemiologictransition1 CONSTRUCTEpidemiologic transitionOMRAN · 1971

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Demography and public health

the long-run shift in a population's main causes of death from infection and famine toward chronic, degenerative disease.

The epidemiologic transition is the long-run shift in a population's dominant causes of death from infectious and famine-related mortality, which strikes mainly the young, toward chronic and degenerative diseases that strike mainly the old, accompanying the mortality decline of the demographic transition. Omran's 1971 The epidemiologic transition: A theory of the epidemiology of population change set out the stages (from an age of pestilence and famine through receding pandemics to an age of degenerative and man-made diseases) and tied them to falling death rates and rising life expectancy. The referent is a population-level change in the structure of mortality by cause and age, not an individual's disease course.[1]

Unit
The changing distribution of deaths by cause and age over a population's history
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Tracked through cause-of-death statistics, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy across successive periods

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demographic transition1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone constructsecond demographic transition1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · the post-transition shift in family lifecause3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Omran, A. R. (1971). The epidemiologic transition: A theory of the epidemiology of population change. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 49(4), 509–538. https://doi.org/10.2307/3349375

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