Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend …
Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much …
At the end of the 20th century nearly all developed nations have become countries of immigration, absorbing growing numbers of immigrants not only from developed regions, but …
This text examines a central issue in understanding changes in demographic patterns and the labour market - the increased participation of women in the workforce and how the nature …
This compendium of nineteen chapters, written by South Asia scholars and international authorities in the field of population, provides an overview of a range of issues surrounding …
This book deals with the important subject of famine demography. It contains case studies of the demography of historical and more recent famines in locations as far apart as …
This book is a collection of papers by leading scholars whose research concerns economic transfers between generations. The issues addressed have great relevance to demographic …
There is general consensus among the international population community that the commitment achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) to …
This volume explores, in various ways, the connections between reproductive health and culture. How does culture shape the ways in which reproductive events are associated with …
The study of Asian historical demography has lagged behind that of its European and American counterparts for some time. This volume serves to narrow the gap by drawing together …
