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An epidemiological transition is a shift in the pattern of diseases that occur in a given community. Such transitions are important because they tell us a great deal about the true foundations of disease: what really causes the disease.

Throughout the past 100 years a major epidemiological transition has occurred. The following section reviews this transition and examines the reasons - and consequences.