Chapter ID: CBB360643935

The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside down: Britain’s Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa (2021)

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This chapter offers a revisionist appraisal of the classic 1971 version of the epidemiologic transition model, which was much cited throughout the 1980s and 1990s when the World Bank was imposing structural adjustment plans and conditional loans on many countries in Africa and across the world. This was a general historical model that relied principally on evidence about British history for its empirical plausibility. Despite its wide currency and subsequent influence, it was not a model historians of Britain have ever signed up to. This chapter points out that, in fact, demographic historians’ reconstruction of England’s epidemiological history is greatly

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Authors & Contributors
Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita
Frank Gerits
Benton, Bruce
Utietiang, Bekeh
Longsworth, Polly
Hirschhorn, Norbert
Concepts
Public health
Demography; population research
Historiography
History of medicine, as a discipline
Economic development
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Africa
Great Britain
United States
Detroit (Michigan)
South Asia
Nigeria
Institutions
World Bank
United Nations
UNICEF
Asian-African Conference (1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
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