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Ageing populations and childhood infections: the potential impact on epidemic patterns and morbidity

Author(s) -

John R. Williams

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh098

Subject(s) - measles , vaccination , medicine , population , demography , disease , rubella , population ageing , ageing , incidence (geometry) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , immunology , physics , pathology , sociology , optics

Population decline, arising from below replacement fertility and possibly giving rise to substantial changes in age distribution, is a feature of many industrialized developed countries; Italy is one of the most notable European examples. The potential influence of this phenomenon on prevalence of chronic non-infectious disease is well known, but little attention to date has been paid to the impact on severe disease due to childhood infections in those cases where control is insufficient to achieve elimination.

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