the process of socio - economic development accounts for a transition over time, from infectious diseases to chronic and degenerative diseases as the most important causes of death
the socio - economic development transition occurs as a country undergoes the process of modernization from developing to developed
what were Abdel Omran's 3 distinct phases?
the age of perstilence and famine, the age of receding pandemics, the age of degenerative and man made diseases
what phase was added to Abdel Omran's theory in the 1980s?
the age of delayed degenerative diseases
what are all 4 of the phases in Abdel Omran's theory?
the age of perstilence and famine, the age of receding pandemics, the age of degenerative and man made diseases, the age of delayed degenerative diseases
