Population and demography

This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death.

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life.

This book focuses on first-generation graduate students in the US and the graduate or post-baccalaureate programs that house and educate these students.

This book coaches marketing practitioners and students how to best satisfy the needs of the older consumer population.

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society.

This book examines how COVID-19 has often enhanced social and economic marginalisation in different places and societies around the world.

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging.

This handbook provides a demographic examination of global obesity trends by bringing together the range of research conducted in this field by demographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other quantitatively and demographically oriented social scientists.

This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near America's most popular heritage attractions.

This manual provides an overview of China's administrative geography, history, and populations of all 31 provinces, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe.

This book provides the first compilation of demographic research focused on transgender, nonbinary, and gender minority populations.

This book responds to growing calls to conceptualise and analyse internal migration as a trajectory that unfolds over the life course of individuals rather than a series of discrete events.

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course.

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets.

Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death.

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental scientific insights into the geographical features of a country which was and still is in the centre of the geopolitical battle of the large world powers and especially neighboring countries.

This book gathers peer-review contributions to the 4th International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2021, held on November 23-24, 2021, in Evora, Portugal.

 With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies.

This book provides quantitative and applied methodologies in the Covid-19 era exploring important issues in demography, population studies, and health.

Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago.

This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades.

This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region.

The transitional phase from pre-older adult to older adult affects the wellbeing of the concerned person economically, physically, and psychologically.

This book reinvigorates the field of socio-legal inquiry examining the relationship between law and demography.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

Starting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model.

This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.

Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance among individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social insurance.

This book assesses the drivers and impacts of new international residential mobilities by considering a range of mobilities in different countries across the globe from investment, amenity and retirement mobilities to those of the new global middle class and the transnational elites.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context.

This book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs).

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

This book examines the emergence of a culture of migration through outward migration as a country-specific phenomenon and analyzes it from different perspectives, covering various aspects such as the history of a country, its migration flows, migration push factors, social, economic, and political issues, as well as individual values.

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging.

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other.

This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States.

This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B.

Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) have become essential solutions for better living, preventing disease, and self-care, in addition to biomedical treatments, and for increasing longevity without loss of quality of life.

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings.

This book provides a solid empirical portrait based on the complexities of demographic components of population change.

This book sheds light on the effects of the financial and economic crisis in a diverse set of countries of Southern and Mediterranean Europe.

This book is devoted to Corrado Gini, father of the Italian statistical school.

This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis.

This fully updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook, comprised of entirely original research, presents data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction.

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe.