Demography

Tribal Women: Reproductive and Child Health (A Study in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh) Concept note on proposed research for M.Phil-Ph.D Programme in Women’s Studies in TISS –Hyderabad. By: Chiranjeevi. T Research narratives: Maternal health includes the physical, mental and social well-being of women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum period. Reproductive health is an indispensable ingredient of health and a major determinant of human development. Nearly 65,000

THE THEORY OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND ITS APPLICABILITY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Part One) A PAPER COMPILED BY S. AKINMAYỌWA LAWAL MATRIC NO: 106584 Department of Sociology University Of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria. SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR UCHE C. ISIUGO-ABANIHE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN SOC 727: DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THURSDAY, 8 MAY, 2008. Abstract Human population over the past decades, have doubled, tripled and grown rapidly

Demography is influenced by a multitude of factors, many of which are yet unknown or unquantifiable. Demographic changes can arise from unsuspecting sources; for example Chong et al (2008) found that the spread of soap operas in Brazil, which portrayed smaller

Population control, as a concept, can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome when Aristotle claimed that a fluctuating population would cause poverty. Greek city-states, wanting to neither grow nor decline in population, practiced forms of fertility inhibition and infanticide with the hopes of keeping the population stable to a certain number of persons to prevent this catastrophe. Rome, on the other hand, under rule of Augustus, enacted laws that punished both celibacy and adultery while rewarding

people are the same. Thus, diversity studies would then be reduced to the conclusion that ‘everyone is different’ and, if this conclusion is accepted, the concept of diversity may become “nothing more than a benign, meaningless concept” (Nkomo, 1995). The danger in narrowly defining diversity, however, is that only one dimension of cultural diversity (race, age, ethnicity, or gender) is by and large the subject of research at a time. Since a cultural diversity dimension interacts with other dimensions

This paper will explore the population phenomena pertaining to Singapore acquiring and sustaining low fertility, which has ultimately resulted in an ageing population. There is a multitude of interconnected factors that have contributed to Singapore’s low fertility, and more importantly how this has reduced younger populations being added every year. However, this paper will focus on the premise that women’s higher educational attainment has prompted a delay in marriage, and thus a delay in having

HS1401 Individual Population Report Introduction It is imperative to health care professionals to be able to understand the demographic of their local community in order to effectively address their needs and provide quality care. This report will outline the population profile of Gordon-Killara, located in the upper north shore of Sydney, NSW. Australia is often perceived as a multicultural country where every region has a spread of people with different race, age, gender and socioeconomic status

species that can be sustained indefinitely in a particular area. The Earth’s capacity to support people is determined both by natural constraints and by human choices concerning economics, environment, culture (including values and politics), and demography. Human carrying capacity is more difficult to estimate than some of the standard demographic indicators, like expectation of life or the total fertility rate, because human carrying capacity depends on populations and activities around the world

that moving to the city will solve any issues with money and they hope for better incomes with all the opportunity that the city can offer. “Often people are fleeing desperate economic conditions,” says David Bloom, a professor of economics and demography at Harvard University's School of Public Health (Weeks 185). Many people realize that moving to the city does not in fact solve financial issues and so they end up packing into a house or a shack in the slums with others, in other words, living

the distinctions areas can have from their surroundings. This paper will discuss my hometown from a demographic perspective. I will briefly explain the various data I utilized followed by several analyses of sample components of my hometown that demography examines. These components include projections thirty years from now in addition to the socioeconomic and demographic changes from 1990 to the present. In addition to interpreting these values, I will also explain how these variables influenced