Epidemiological Transition Paper

By using the chart of the 12 top causes of death from 2015 and categorizing them in position of epidemiological transition we see a separation of where these diseases are placed. Lower respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases would be categorized in the first epidemiological transition. Whereas, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer diseases, lung cancer, diabetes, road injury, and chronic kidney disease are associated with the second epidemiological transition. And lastly, the third epidemiological transitions would have HIV/AIDS and TB. Lower respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases are considered a first epidemiological transition. People who suffer from lower respiratory diseases is often due to accidental
People who suffer from Ischemic heart disease tend to be smokers, obesity, don’t exercise often and have poor nutrition. This is a fine example of a disease associated with a change at the everyday level. Similar to cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer diseases which are age associated deaths due to the increase longevity, but are chronic diseases. Diabetes, also fall into this transition because it follows a trend of change in lifestyle of people doing less physical work, but consuming poor nutritional diet heavily seen in developing countries. Also road injury because those are age related deaths
HIV/AID and TB fall into the third transition because they have to do with either the resistance to drugs or it is a new emergence of a disease. Tuberculosis is totally resistant to 1st and 2nd line of drugs. It was first observed in 1980, MDR TB was resistant to two drugs, than in 1993 XDR TB 4 drugs and 2 lines of resistance and the by 2003 TDR TB was when TB was resistant to all 1st and 2nd line of drugs. HIV/AID are new diseases that was first detected in 1983, but was circulating under the radar as late as