The second epidemiological transition, as first described by Omran (1971), has meant that death as a relatively acute event due to infectious disease has to a great extent been transformed into a death typified by protracted ailments (Illich, 1975), for instance as a result of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or in people living to a very old age by multiorgan failure toward the end of life. From: International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), 2017
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