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This lecture overviews one of the most important concepts of epidemiology and global health. The Epidemiologic transition shifts the focus of epidemiology from a single disease to the systems of disease.

Improving the health of the world's poor

How to improve monitoring and forecasting of disease patterns.

John C. Caldwell reviews the 1971 paper by Abdel Omran on the epidemiological transition. Extracts from the original paper are reproduced, by permission, from The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly.