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... In 1991 the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences organized a workshop on the epidemiological transition in developing countries. The workshop brought together medical experts, epidemiologists, demographers, and other social scientists involved in research on the epidemiological transition in developing countries to discuss the nature of the ongoing transition, identify the most important contributors to the overall burden of disease, and discuss how such information could be used to assist policy makers in those countries to establish priorities with respect to the prevention and management of the main causes of ill health.
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... The 1991 workshop coincided with the development and rapid acceptance of new measures of healthy years of life lost to various diseases as the basis for making comparisons of the cost-effectiveness of alternative health programs; this approach would get even more support in the years following the workshop, with the publication of the seminal 1993 report Investing in Health (World Bank, 1993) and the publication of the first edition of the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease study (Murray and Lopez, 1996a; 1996b)
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... to develop a two-day workshop wherein leading scientists from relevant disciplines could come together to discuss the nature of the ongoing transition, to identify the most important contributors to the overall burden of disease, and to discuss how such information could be used to better assist policy makers in those countries establish priorities with respect to the prevention and management of the main causes of ill health as well as to plan for the likely demand for certain types of health care in the future; and 2. to build on the workshop discussions by developing a research agenda focused on novel analyses and data collection strategies that would afford policy makers a better understanding of current and emerging health-related needs and enhance their assessment of the potential impact of policy options.
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  • demographic surveillance
  • surveillance sites
  • epidemiological situation
  • health programs
  • emerging epidemiological

  • epidemiological changes
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  • ill health
  • dual health
  • current epidemiological

  • alternative health
  • civil registration
  • oral rehydration
  • prominent researchers
  • demographic modeling

  • commission papers
  • workshop brought
  • workshop reviewed
  • various diseases
  • sciences organized

  • recordkeeping exists
  • changing patterns
  • developing world
  • lacking altogether
  • novel analyses

  • rehydration salts
  • alongside modern
  • african countries
  • systematic information
  • deficiency syndrome


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