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Population health

a proposed later stage in which deaths from degenerative diseases are postponed to older ages, producing rapid old-age mortality decline.

In population health, fourth stage of the epidemiologic transition refers to a proposed later stage in which deaths from degenerative diseases are postponed to older ages, producing rapid old-age mortality decline. This meaning comes from Olshansky (1986) in The Milbank Quarterly.[1]

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Olshansky, S. J., & Ault, A. B. (1986). The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of Delayed Degenerative Diseases. The Milbank Quarterly, 64(3), 355. https://doi.org/10.2307/3350025

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