OMRON - MODEL OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION

Question 1

What is it ?

Answer 1

A model which explains the complex change in health and disease patterns

Question 2

What does it show?

Answer 2

It shows how
degenerative and lifestyle diseases gradually replace epidemics of communicable diseases as the main cause of morbidity & death

Question 3

How many stages

Answer 3

Four Stages

1. The age of Pestilence & famine (life expectancy 35)
   LIDCs sub - Saharan Africa
   Malaria
2. The Age of Receding Pandemics (life expectancy 50)
   EDCS
   South Asia
3. The Age of Degenerative and Man-made diseases (life expectancy ^0)
   Shift to CVD, Diabetes etc
   Europe & central Asia
4. The age of Delayed degenerative diseases
   Medical advancementes to treat cancer, CVD etc
   ACs eg UK

New stage
5. Age of Health & Social Development
Very high income ACs eg Denmark

Question 4

How do countries move between stages

Answer 4

Shifts between stages closely associated with

Demographic transitions
Socio-economic transitions

which are influenced by LEVELS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQULALITY

Question 5

What factors are key in shifts between the different stages

Answer 5

Access to WASH
Access to food & healthy nutrition
Access to healthcare
Literacy

Question 6

Diagram

Answer 6