Infections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological transition : (Record no. 523484)
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| control field | CR9781580468718 |
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| control field | UkCbUP |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781580468718 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781580465083 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | RA643 |
| Item number | .M427 2014 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 616.9 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mercer, Alex, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Infections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological transition : |
| Remainder of title | a new perspective / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Alexander Mercer. |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Rochester, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | University of Rochester Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) | |
| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
| Source (NR) | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| სერიის ცნობა | Rochester studies in medical history ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation | 31 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2018). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Communicable diseases. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781580465083 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Rochester studies in medical history ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation | 31. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781580468718/type/BOOK">https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781580468718/type/BOOK</a> |
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