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Title: The Current State of Knowledge on the Industrial Epidemiologic Transition

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: A historical perspective differentiates between the industrial demographic transition, which describes the decline in mortality and fertility that has accompanied the industrial revolution, and the epidemiologic transition, which was developed a half century later and describes the changes in cause of death that accompanied the demographic transition. The demographic transition is a model describing the decline in mortality and fertility that occurred over the last 300 years. Since this process coincides with the industrial revolution, it is assumed to be the catalyst. The secular trends in age‐specific mortality are a new addition to the demographic transition, largely due to improvements in the quality of data available, such as the Human Mortality Database. This chapter talks about other transitions like the height transition and the subnational transitions. The use of more sophisticated methods has also contributed to one's understanding of demographic transitions.

Url: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118504338.ch21

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Authors: Gage, Timothy, B

Editors: Zuckerman, Molly K.

Pages: 377-392

Volume Title: Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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Countries: United States