P1-7 Influenza recycling and epidemiologic evolution: an alternative to omran's epidemiologic transition theory for population change
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Epidemiologic transition theory exceptions
Abdel Omran’s 1971 theory of epidemiological transition is an attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18 century. According to Omran, all societies experience three "ages" in the process of modernization: the "age of pestilence and famine", during which mortality is high and fluctuating, with an average life expectancy under 30...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2011.142976c.2