Based on the findings of the current study we also observe that it is difficult to classify tobacco use in India under the conventional cigarette epidemic model due to the considerable variations in the socioeconomic gradients by different types of tobacco use.
During the 2003 SARS epidemic, conventional epidemiologic investigation, aided by viral sequencing analysis, identified viral genetic signatures that are linked to geographic and temporal clusters of infection (4, 10 – 15, 15 – 15 ).
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the obesity epidemic is not restricted to industrialized societies; in developing countries, it is estimated that over 115 million people suffer from obesity-related problems," the WHO says.
Concern over health and safety issues has not been a strong deterrent to the epidemic use of conventional performance-enhancing drugs.
Given the asymmetric nature of conflict, which group do we expect to be more affected by an epidemic: large, centralized conventional military forces or small, agile insurgent units?
Companies doing business in the developing world have to contend with the staggering human and financial costs of HIV infection and most would agree that conventional approaches to controlling the epidemic aren't working.
Or my great-grandchildren's?" Bill Gates, whose foundation is spending billions on developing AIDS preventions, expressed skepticism that the world could soon end the AIDS epidemic by any conventional definition.
Twenty years ago, George H.W. Bush's Attorney General, William P. Barr, confronted the nadir of America's crime epidemic with the conventional public policy wisdom of the time; he called on states across the nation to ramp up incarceration.
The epidemic has crossed the conventional boundaries of the traditional high risk groups where it initially started and has now percolated into the general population [ 5].
Over the past decade, some jurisdictions with concentrated epidemics have already begun to challenge conventional testing recommendations.
