This section looks back to some groundbreaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. John C. Caldwell reviews the 1971 paper by Abdel Omran on the epidemiological transition. Extracts from the original paper are reproduced, by permission, from The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly.
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