Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 675-697Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7020675
Keywords
epidemiological transition; globalization; infectious disease; degenerative disease
Funding
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program
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The epidemiological transition model describes the changing relationship between humans and their diseases. The first transition occurred with the shift to agriculture about 10,000 YBP, resulting in a pattern of infectious and nutritional diseases still evident today. In the last two centuries, some populations have undergone a second transition, characterized by a decline in infectious disease and rise in degenerative disease. We are now in the throes of a third epidemiological transition, in which a resurgence of familiar infections is accompanied by an array of novel diseases, all of which have the potential to spread rapidly due to globalization.
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