Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition : A New Perspective /

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Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, presenting a new theory on how chronic diseases have developed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mercer, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Infektionskrankheit
Chronische Krankheit
Lebenserwartung
Lebensstandard
Sterblichkeit
Epidemiologie
Communicable diseases > Transmission.
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Maladies infectieuses > Transmission.
Maladies infectieuses > Épidemiologie.
Mortality > trends
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
Grossbritannien
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical framework, data, and study outline : the concept of epidemiological transition
  • A new infectious disease environment
  • Mortality decline, food, and population growth : standard of living and nutrition
  • Smallpox
  • Typhus, typhoid, cholera, diarrhea, and dysentery
  • Infant mortality
  • Child mortality
  • Tuberculosis
  • Respiratory diseases
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cancer
  • Other chronic diseases
  • Epidemiological transition : a new perspective.

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