Demography category: 971 books

Cover of The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging
by Jacob S. Siegel, S. Jay Olshansky
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears...
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Counting Populations, Understanding Societies

Towards a Interpretative Demography

by Véronique Petit
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development. The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography...
Cover of Concepts, Methods and Practical Applications in Applied Demography
by Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques. It allows students from the social and human sciences, demographers, consultants and anyone interested in applied demography to gain an understanding of a wide range...
Cover of Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013

Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century.  One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States; this book includes material dealing with applied demography in Australia, Canada, Estonia,...
Cover of The Demography of Health and Healthcare
by Louis G. Pol, Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012

In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues.  The significance of health demography within the field of population studies has continued...
Cover of International Handbook of Rural Demography
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently...
Cover of Why Demography Matters
by Danny Dorling, Stuart Gietel-Basten
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017

Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is...
Cover of The Frontiers of Applied Demography
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014

By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population...
Cover of The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015

Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines address the links between stratification, demography,...
Cover of Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016

This book demonstrates different statistical techniques for analyzing health-related data as well as providing new techniques for forecasting and/or projecting the incidence of diseases/disorders. It presents information on a variety of health related issues from the developed and developing world....
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Demography

The Science of Population

by Jay Weinstein, Vijayan K. Pillai
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015

This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines. The most applied book on the market, Demography: The Science of Population teaches...
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A Global History of Historical Demography

Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity

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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm...
Cover of Age-Structured Population Dynamics in Demography and Epidemiology
by Hisashi Inaba
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems. Age structure is a crucial factor in understanding population phenomena, and the essential ideas in demography...
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