Sökning: "Demographic transition"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 63 avhandlingar innehållade orden Demographic transition.

  1. 16. Bedroom Politics. How family policies affect women’s fertility and union formation decisions

    Författare :Andrej Kokkonen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family policy; fertility; marriage; cohabitation; divorce; union formation; union dissolution; new home economics; bargaining theory; second demographic transition;

    Sammanfattning : Most studies on policies’ effect on fertility depart from the assumption that fertility decisions are taken within unions, by partners who behave altruistically towards each other. This study argues that such a focus misses a fundamental fact: namely, that fertility decisions are closely interrelated with decisions about union formation and union dissolution. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Effects of violent conflict on women and children : Sexual behavior, fertility, and infant mortality in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Författare :Elina Elveborg Lindskog; Elizabeth Thomson; Sunnee Billingsley; Henrik Urdal; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Violent conflict; war; premarital first sexual intercourse; fertility transition; infant mortality; Rwanda; the DRC; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the relationship between violent conflicts and sexual and reproductive health in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aim of the thesis is to investigate how war affects demographic outcomes across individual life courses. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Land use dynamics and demographic change in southern Burkina Faso

    Författare :Issa Ouedraogo; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : With the increasing world’s population, coupled with the technology improvement, man has emerged as the major, most powerful and universal instrument of environmental change in the biosphere today. To understand and predict the impacts of this change in the future, long-term reconstruction of land use and cover changes at global, regional and local scales is a prerequisite. LÄS MER

  5. 19. The two faces of smallpox : a disease and its prevention in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden

    Författare :Peter Sköld; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epidemiologic transition; historical demography; infectious disease; inoculation; mortality; public health; smallpox; Sweden; vaccination;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive measures that were used against it: inoculation during the eighteenth and vaccination during the nineteenth Century. Between 1750 and 1800 300,000 children died from smallpox in Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Cognitive functioning during the transition from normal aging to dementia

    Författare :Erika Jonsson Laukka; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :preclinical dementia; Alzheimer s disease; vascular dementia; impending death; terminal decline; aging; cognition; population-based study;

    Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis was to address unresolved issues regarding cognitive functioning in preclinical dementia. Increasing the knowledge about the preclinical period of dementia might have important clinical implications. For example, it may facilitate early detection, and thereby increase the efficiency of available interventions. LÄS MER