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050	0	0	_aRA643 _b.M427 2014
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100	1		_aMercer, Alex, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aInfections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological transition : _ba new perspective / _cAlexander Mercer.
264		1	_aRochester, NY : _bUniversity of Rochester Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRochester studies in medical history ; _v31
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2018).
505	0		_aTheoretical 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			_aThis volume examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition in which acute infectious diseases are being superseded by chronic diseases as the predominant causes of morbidity and mortality; age at death has shifted from childhood to older adult ages; and life expectancy,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	_aCommunicable diseases.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781580465083
830		0	_aRochester studies in medical history ; _v31.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781580468718/type/BOOK
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