Alexander Mercer, Independent researcher and the author of Disease, Mortality and Population in Transition: Epidemiological-Demographic Change in England Since the Eighteenth Century as Part of a ...

Demographic Research Vol. 20, JANUARY - JUNE 2009 Mortality in Catalonia in the context of... Mortality in Catalonia in the context of the third, fourth and future phases of the epidemiological ...

While the concept of the epidemiologic transition offers tremendous insight into how and why CVD is emerging as the predominant global cause of morbidity and mortality, it does not mandate that ...

To account for the shift in disease patterns over time, the concept of epidemiological transition was originally proposed by Abdel Omran in the early 1970s and later evolved into broader conceptual ...

Large regions of the world, however, including sub-Saharan Africa and parts of India, are still in this first stage of the epidemiologic transition. During the age of pestilence and famine ...

In a forthcoming book, " Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present," my colleagues and I examine how these same elements have influenced disease ...