The Changing Disease-Scape in the Third Epidemiological Transition

Kristin Harper and George Armelagos
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Kristin Harper: Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
George Armelagos: Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA

IJERPH, 2010, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-23

Abstract: The epidemiological transition model describes the changing relationship between humans and their diseases. The first transition occurred with the shift to agriculture about 10,000 YBP, resulting in a pattern of infectious and nutritional diseases still evident today. In the last two centuries, some populations have undergone a second transition, characterized by a decline in infectious disease and rise in degenerative disease. We are now in the throes of a third epidemiological transition, in which a resurgence of familiar infections is accompanied by an array of novel diseases, all of which have the potential to spread rapidly due to globalization.

Keywords: epidemiological transition; globalization; infectious disease; degenerative disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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