The epidemiological transition
Subtitle: policy and planning implications for developing countries : workshop proceedings
By: James N. Gribble and Samuel H. Preston, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Contributors: Gribble, James N.; Preston, Samuel H.; National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Health transition -- Developing countries -- Congresses.; Developing countries -- Medical policy -- Congresses.; Developing countries -- Population -- Statistics -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Shifts in the structure of population and deaths in less developed regions / Larry Heligman, Nancy Chen, and Ozer Babakol; value: Mortality by cause, 1970 to 2015 / Rodolfo A. Bulatao; value: Childhood precursors of adult morbidity and mortality in developing countries : implications for health programs / W. Henry Mosley and Ronald Gray; value: Projecting morbidity and mortality in developing countries during adulthood / Kenneth G. Manton and Eric Stallard; value: Health indices as a guide to health sector planning : a demographic critique / Samuel H. Preston; value: Health policy issues in three Latin American countries : implications of the epidemiological transition / José Luis Bobadilla and Cristina de A. Possas; value: Goals of the World Summit for Children and their implications for health policy in the 1990s / Anne R. Pebl; value: Distributional implications of alternative strategic responses to the demographic-epidemiological transition : an initial inquiry / Davidson R. Gwatkin; value: Health, government, and the poor : the case for the private sector / Nancy Birdsall and Estelle James; value: Roles of women, families, and communities in preventing illness and providing health services in developing countries / John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell.