健康轉型期(health transition)或流行病學轉型(epidemiological transition)包含四個階段:①大流行及飢荒期(the age of pestilence and famine) ②流行減退期(the age of receding pandemics) ③延後退化期(theage of delayed degenerative diseases)④退化及人為疾病期(the age of degenerative and man-made diseases)。其先後順序何者正確?