Population and demography

According to current understanding, Malthus was hostile to an excess of population because it caused social sufferings, while Marx was favourable to demographic growth in so far as a large proletariat was a factor aggravating the contradictions of capitalism.

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support.

Justin O'Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat.

The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved.

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century.

Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929 1945) an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history.

Forty years ago, the age-old battle against infectious diseases as a major threat to human health was believed close to being won.

Key research in the world's largest aging population - in China - has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide.

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Panel on Historical Demography applies a historical perspective, such as the importance of kinship networks for demographic outcomes later in life, to promote work of contemporary relevance.

This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States.

Although both demography and gender relations have been the focus of research for quite some time, the intersection of gender studies and demographic analysis is a more recent phenomenon.

Our societies are ageing.

Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries' institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union.

Dynamic Population Models is the first book to comprehensively discuss and synthesize the emerging field of dynamic modeling, i.

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This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood.

Empirical research often lacks theory.

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The thesis of this book is that there are one set of equations that can define any trip between an origin and destination.

A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population aging and achieving healthy aging to maintain an active older population and reduce the number of disabled people.

In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital.

Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day landscapes and their ecological characteristics.

New perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive - haviour of Mediterranean Europe 1.

Low fertility, one of the critical issues in the contemporary world, will persist in the foreseeable future.

Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States?

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962.

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

On January 29, 2001, President George W.

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change.

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress.

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress.

Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature.

Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature.

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.

Featuring original research findings from a key Chinese national research centre, this book provides researchers with cutting-edge, reliable and comprehensive information about children and youth in modern China.

Featuring original research findings from a key Chinese national research centre, this book provides researchers with cutting-edge, reliable and comprehensive information about children and youth in modern China.

International migration is an issue of enduring interest and debate, as strong as ever in the 21st century.

International migration is an issue of enduring interest and debate, as strong as ever in the 21st century.

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement that specifically recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies.

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement that specifically recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies.

The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and other stratifying variables.