Aims: To describe die epidemiological development of a rural Ethiopian population from 1987 to 2004 in terms of mortality and associated sociodemographic factors. Methods: A rural population ...

Economic and programmatic transitions are changing the global health landscape profoundly. A cohort of countries that have historically relied on development assistance for health (DAH) is ...

In the period 1960-2000, male and female life expectancy in Spain’s Autonomous Region of Catalonia increased by 8.2 and 10.5 years, respectively, thus raising it to among one of the highest in the ...

While any specific country or region enters these ages at different times, the progression from one to another usually proceeds in a predictable manner that is closely linked with several parallel ...

The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non-communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high ...

A new study of the burden of disease and injury across Mexico has found that the south suffers the highest rates of infectious and nutritional diseases, injuries, and non-communicable diseases. A new ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ron Barrett, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The last pandemic was bad, but ...

Rural appalachia: Disparities within disparities. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.