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Special Issue: Epidemiological Transitions - Beyond Omran's Theory

Migration and the epidemiological transition: insights from the Agincourt sub-district of northeast South Africa

Mark A. CollinsonMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, GhanaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael J. WhiteMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Department of SociologyPopulation Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Philippe BocquierMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Stephen T. McGarveyBrown University School of Public HealthInternational Health Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Sulaimon A. AfolabiMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Samuel J. ClarkMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;Department of SociologyUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA;Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Kathleen KahnMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana
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Stephen M. TollmanMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana
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Article: 23514 | Received 05 Dec 2013, Accepted 28 Mar 2014, Published online: 15 May 2014

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