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‘The pattern of life expectancy in the world is a reflection of changes in the pattern of prevalent diseases.’ Examine.

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Life expectancy at birth is a synthetic index of prevailing age-specific death rates, and death rates are simply the arithmetic of which diseases kill, and at what age. The world map of longevity is therefore very largely a map of disease regimes, formalised in Abdel Omran’s epidemiological transition (1971). Yet the correspondence is close rather…

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  • Omran’s Epidemiological Transition as the Explanatory Spine
  • Where in the Age Distribution the Mortality Falls
  • The Historical Pattern of Disease and Longevity
  • Two Centuries of Cumulative Gain
  • The Contemporary Map
  • Examining the Claim: Disease Pattern Is Necessary, Not Sufficient
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