Assignment:

Is there evidence of diverging epidemiological transitions in different areas of the world? Using the Global Burden of Disease and other sources of data as evidence (where possible), discuss similarities and differences in the health transition in different regions of the world as well as why these changes are occurring.

Tips:

- The aim of this essay is to provide an evidence based discussion of the epidemiological transition in different regions of the world. You can restrict your answer to certain regions if you wish, although you should fully justify your selection.

- Obviously this needs to be an examination of health over time, and the GBD should not be the sole evidence you quote as evidence.

- Some debate over the drivers of changes and divergences in the transition should be made.

- Starting points for reading are the references in the related lectures - this should lead to much wider reading.