What is the epidemiological transition and how effective has medicine been in adapting to the changes inherent in it? (Hint: if it has not been effective, why not? What changes could occur to make medical professionals more effective?)
Ans) Epidemiological transition:
- The shift in the causes of illness and death as humans change
from pre-agricultural to agrarian to affluent societies
• the process by which the pattern of mortality and disease is
transformed from one of high mortality among infants and children
and episodic famine affecting all age groups to one of degenerative
and man-made diseases
•The epidemiologic transition also accounts for changing patterns
of population fertility.
- Omran says this transition in the Classical/Western Model is
primarily a result of ecobiologic, socioeconomic, political, and
cultural determinants (sanitation, hygiene, standards of living,
nutrition), NOT advances in medical science.
- Medical advances and public health initiatives more important in
later models.
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