Abdel r omran biography examples

The Theory of Epidemiologic Transition: the Origins of a Citation Classic GEORGE WEISZ * AND JESSE OLSZYNKO-GRYN ** * Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 3647 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3X 3R3.

Email: george.weisz@mcgill.ca. ** Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK. Email: jo312@cam.ac.uk. ABSTRACT. In 1971 Abdel R. Omran published his classic paper on the theory of epidemiologic transition.

In the year , Abdel R. Omran coined the term epidemiological transition to denote the change in disease patterns and causes of death within a population.

By the mid-1990s, it had become something of a citation classic and was understood as a theoretical statement about the shift from infectious to chronic diseases that supposedly accompanies modernization. However, Omran himself was not directly concerned with the rise of chronic disease; his theory was in fact closely tied to efforts to accelerate fertility decline through health-oriented population control programs.

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