Pakistan is not only undergoing a demographic progression but it is also tormenting from epidemiological transition. Demographic transition is evident because birth rates are increasing (28.6 per thousand population in 2017) while death rates (7 per thousand population in 2017) are decreasing consequential to a population explosion1. In Pakistan and many other developing countries epidemiological evolution has led to a twofold encumber of disease2.
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.36283/PJMD9-1/002 |
| Publisher Name | Ziauddin University |
- Muhammad Luqman Farrukh Nagi
- Department of Community Medicine, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
- Syed Tehseen Haider Kazmi
- Department of Community Medicine, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan