This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Historical life tables for developed countries are analysed in order to present the epidemiological transition in terms of Brass's logit ...

https://doi.org/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.140.0001 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.140.0001 Copy URL The growing literature on the ...

The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non-communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high ...

A CHILD BORN in China today can expect to live more than three decades longer than his ancestors 50 years ago, a gain in life expectancy that rich countries typically took twice as long to achieve.

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