Skip Navigation


IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 30, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(2):384-386; doi:10.1093/ije/dym054
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
36/2/384    most recent
dym054v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Vallin, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Vallin, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: ‘Epidemiologic transition’ interrupted or sweep to the second stage of ‘health transition’?

Jacques Vallin

Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, 133 Boulevard Davout, Paris cedex 20, France. E-mail: vallin@ined.fr

Accepted 22 February 2007

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Do it twice and you will get different results. That's a very common law when measuring demographic indicators in developing countries where current statistics are incomplete. And it is very likely that the third time will give yet another result! It is not enough to make good demographers despair. It even presents a good opportunity to outstanding specialists like the authors of ‘Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand’1 to try to approach the true measure of mortality in such a country. To approach, not to reach absolutely, of course. Indeed, several questions still await answers. But the most questionable aspect of the results presented here is not to what extent reassessment fits the reality but to what extent trends reassessed justify the main title: ‘Epidemiologic transition interrupted’.

The work done by the authors of the article significantly improves our knowledge about recent trends in Thai mortality. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Soc Hist MedHome page
G. Mooney
Infectious Diseases and Epidemiologic Transition in Victorian Britain? Definitely
Soc Hist Med, December 1, 2007; 20(3): 595 - 606.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]