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100 1 Mercer, Alex,
245 10 Infections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological
transition :|ba new perspective /|cAlexander Mercer.
264 1 Rochester, NY :|bUniversity of Rochester Press,|c2014.
300 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) :|bdigital, PDF file(s).
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490 1 Rochester studies in medical history ;|v31
500 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12
Apr 2018).
505 0 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.
520 This volume examines the ongoing, worldwide
epidemiological transition in which acute infectious
diseases are being superseded by chronic diseases as the
predominant causes of morbidity and mortality; age at
death has shifted from childhood to older adult ages; and
life expectancy, population, and the proportion of older
people are increasing. This transition constitutes a
fundamental change in the human condition, and an
understanding of the historical process behind it is thus
of major importance. This study is the first to document
the transition in a single country, drawing on records of
cause-specific mortality since the eighteenth century in
England, with comparative data from other Western
countries. Alexander Mercer discusses possible causes of
specific disease trends, reassessing the relative
importance of "health interventions" and "standard of
living" as determinants of increased life expectancy, and
presents a new theory of how chronic diseases have
developed. As specific microorganisms have been
established as causal agents in chronic diseases that
account for a significant proportion of "premature" deaths,
the study suggests that a new conceptualization of the
epidemiological transition is required, one that takes
into account interrelationships between infectious
diseases, between infections and chronic diseases, and
between disorders underlying different chronic diseases.
Alexander Mercer is an independent researcher and the
author of Disease, Mortality and Population in Transition:
Epidemiological-Demographic Change in England Since the
EighteenthCentury as Part of a Global Phenomenon.
650 0 Communicable diseases.
830 0 Rochester studies in medical history ;|v31.
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