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- 49
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- 4
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Abdel R. Omran
(1971).
The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change.
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly
, 49
(4)
, 509-509.
https://doi.org/10.2307/3349375
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- 10.2307/3349375