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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 303–321.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Lloyd B. Potter Abstract Epidemiological transition theory suggests that two populations existing under disparate socioeconomic conditions would have different life expectancies as the result of cause-of-death differences. The effect of racial socioeconomic differentials on the total racial life...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2005
...David Cutler; Grant Miller Abstract Mortality rates in the United States fell more rapidly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than in any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality “penalty...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
...-phase. We show that for cohorts aging during Sweden’s demographic and epidemiological transitions, the Q-phase became longer and more pronounced, reflecting the retreat of infections and maternal mortality as key causes of death. These changes revealed an underlying hazard trajectory that remains...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 639–660.
Published: 01 November 1991
... on Recent Trends in the Infant Mortality-Socioeconomic Status Relationship . Social Forces , 61 , 268 – 76 . 10.2307/2578086 Omran , Abdel R. ( 1971 ). The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change . Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly , 49 ( 4 ), 509 – 38...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2105–2119.
Published: 11 November 2016
... 10 2016 11 11 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Vitality Mortality Survival Epidemiologic transition Life expectancy The rise in human life expectancy over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for most developed countries is well documented. Omran’s...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
... In the past two centuries, life expectancy has more than doubled from 30–40 years to approximately 80 or more years in many developed countries (Oeppen and Vaupel 2002 ). The epidemiologic transition (Olshansky and Ault 1986 ; Omran 1971 ) is thought to be the key mechanism behind the increase in human...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 271–296.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of the most persuasive arguments and the most informative clues concerning the cause of this decline are derived from historical changes in the relative risk of the various causes of death (McKeown 1976; Preston 1976). Unfortunately, however, our current knowledge of these epidemiological transitions...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
Published: 01 November 1999
... and migration. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Health Transition Mortality Decline Crude Rate Urban Rate Epidemiologic Transition References Alter , G. ( 1995 ). Trends in Old-Age Mortality in the United States, 1990–1935: Evidence From Railroad...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 381–389.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Evelyn M. Kitagawa 16 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Mortality Level Mortality Trend Mortality Decline Epidemiologic Transition Male Mortality References Antonovsky , A. ( 1967 ). Social Class, Life Expectancy and Overall Mortality...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 647–657.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., Derived From an Extensive Collection of Original Data, Supplied by Friendly Societies, and Proving Their Too Frequent Instability.” . Journal of the Statistical Society of London , 8 , 290 – 350 . 10.2307/2337781 Omran , A. ( 1971 ). “The Epidemiological Transition: a Theory...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 399–409.
Published: 01 August 1997
... of Cause-of-Death Validation Studies: 1958–1980 . Washington, DC : U.S. Government Printing Office . Physicians’ Handbook on Medical Certification of Death . ( 1987 ). Hyattsville, MD : Public Health Service . Omran , A.R. ( 1971 ). “The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... health trends, such as the epidemiological transition to greater chronic disease burden in populations (e.g. Hummer and Lariscy 2011 ; Smith et al. 2015 ). Related, educational expansion also needs to be incorporated into testing of the FCT in terms of persistence health disparities as a function...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
... in population health: the demographic and the epidemiological transition literatures. Demographic transition theory (DTT) conceptualizes four stages of temporally dynamic processes resulting from changes in mortality: (1) a pre-industrial stage in which birth and death rates are high and population size...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 309–331.
Published: 01 May 2003
... ). Social Factors in the Etiology of Chronic Disease: An Overview . Social Science and Medicine , 16 , 353 – 67 . 10.1016/0277-9536(82)90046-6 Myers G.C. , & Manton K.G. ( 1987 ). The Rate of Population Aging: New Views of Epidemiologic Transitions . In
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... The present research holds implications for epidemiological transition theory. The decline in the mortality rate in the United States during the past century has occurred through a change from the acute infectious diseases to the chronic degenerative diseases as the leading causes of death. Although...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 611–624.
Published: 01 November 1988
... in Japan: Determinants, implication and perspectives . World Health Statistics Quarterly , 38 , 176 – 192 . Omran , A. R. ( 1971 ). The epidemiologic transition: A theory of the epidemiology of population change . Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly , 49 , 509 – 538 . 10.2307/3349375...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 29 November 2012
... favorable than in the United States. These differences may exist in the case of Mexicans (relative to U.S.-born NH whites) because of the later onset of the epidemiological and nutritional transitions in Mexico (Rivera et al. 2002 ). Although we do not argue that differences in epidemiological regimes...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2071–2096.
Published: 12 November 2018
... 2016 ). The long-term combination of a failure to complete the epidemiologic transition by reducing cardiovascular diseases (Caselli et al. 2002 ) and fluctuation in alcohol consumption and violence, particularly in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) (Bye 2008 ; Leon et al. 1997 ), led...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Recovery From Measles . Tropical Doctor , 20 ( 3 ), 123 – 26 . Omran , A.R. ( 1971 ). The Epidemiological Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change . Milbank Memorial Quarterly , 49 , 509 – 38 . 10.2307/3349375 Paneth , N. , & Susser , M. ( 1995...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 391–412.
Published: 01 November 1998
... Nicolaides-Bouman , A. , Wald , N. , Forey , B. , & Lee , P. ( 1993 ). International Smoking Statistics . New York : Oxford University Press . Olshansky , S.J. , & Ault , A.B. ( 1986 ). The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of Delayed...
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