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for the 1990s and Beyond 1 W. Henry Mosley The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Population Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2179
Dean T. Jamison University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California 90024-1521
Donald A Henderson .
The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2179
Even before we win our battle against the communicable diseases which has engaged us since our earliest days, many developing countries must now, in addition, face the burden of ageing and the chronic and degenerative diseases [Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima (35), p. 102).
INTRODUCTION The international public health community has focused most of its attention for the past decade on the communicable childhood diseases
(CCD).
Although there are exceptions to this generalization--