The Epidemiological Transition: Policy and Planning Implications for Developing Countries

Bys: National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, et al.

This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309048397
• ISBN13: 9780309048392
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"