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Epidemiological Shifts in Urban Bangladesh

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Communicable diseases (infectious diseases, contagious diseases); Non-communicable diseases (non-infectious diseases)

Definitions

Epidemiology: The term epidemiology has been used as the study of determinants, distribution, and occurrence of incidences related to diseases in a specific population group (Brachman 2011) which encompasses both infectious and non-infectious diseases.

Epidemiological trends: This can refer to various aspects of epidemiology, but in this review this term will only be confined to secular trends of epidemiology which indicates the occurrence of diseases over a period of time, usually years; seasonal trends indicating disease incidence shift due to environmental changes and epidemic trends (Brachman 2011).

Communicable or infectious diseases (CDs): These are diseases that are contagious, spreading via human contact (touch, fecal, oral, food, sexual activity, etc.), water, air, insect bites, animal contact, sexual activities, etc.

Non-communicable...

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  1. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Mahjabin Kabir Adrita & Raisa Sultana

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Kabir Adrita, M., Sultana, R. (2022). Epidemiological Shifts in Urban Bangladesh. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_331

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