Search for dissertations about: "Demographic transition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words Demographic transition.

2. 1. Closing the gap : applying health and socio-demographic surveillance to complex health transitions in South and sub-Saharan Africa

   Author : Stephen M Tollman; Stig Wall; Demissie Habte; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; demographic surveillance system; health transition; mortality transition; fertility transition; health policy; primary health care; South Africa; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Background: The challenge of research in resource-poor settings remains a profound concern and is closely linked to African social development. Work of this thesis spans the end of apartheid and first decade of the democratic era in South Africa, along with emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. READ MORE

4. 2. Economic development and injury mortality : Studies in global trends from a health transition perspective

   Author : Syed Moniruzzaman; Ragnar Andersson; Karin Melinder; Hans Rosling; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; injury; suicide; economic development; health transition; demographic transition; homicide; road traffic injury; fall injury; mortality; GDP per capita; GNP per capita; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; Public Health Science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : Globally, injury is a major public health problem. The extent of the problem varies considerably by demographic subgroups, regions and national income. READ MORE

5. 3. Dying to make a fresh start : mortality and health transition in a new South Africa

   Author : Kathleen Kahn; Anneli Ivarsson; Stig Wall; Michel Garenne; Debbie Bradshaw; Vinod Diwan; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; age-specific mortality; agincourt; demographic surveillance system; epidemiologic transition; health transition; mortality trends; rural; South Africa; verbal autopsy; vital registration.; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Rationale: Vital registration is lacking in developing settings where health and development problems are most pressing. Policy-makers confront an “information paradox”: the critical need for information on which to base priorities and monitor progress, and the profound shortage of such information. READ MORE

6. 4. Shared practices : social networks and fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition, 1850-1950

   Author : Johan Junkka; Sören Edvinsson; Angélique Janssens; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical demography; fertility transition; social interaction; social network; voluntary associations; historia; History;

   Abstract : This thesis studies how social interactions influenced the fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition between 1850 and 1950. This, to gain insights into how and why norms and values affected married couples' birth control practices, and how this shaped the fertility decline. READ MORE

7. 5. Teachers’ lives in transition : gendered experiences of work and family among primary school teachers in northern Sweden, c. 1860–1940

   Author : Emil Marklund; Lotta Vikström; Glenn Sandström; Åsa Karlsson Sjögren; Johannes Westberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; women teachers; family formation; fertility; social origin; socio-economic status; primary school teachers; life course; gender; professional life; private life; rural; Sweden; historia med utbildningsvetenskaplig inriktning; history of education;

   Abstract : In this thesis, primary school teachers in a coastal area of northern Sweden c. 1860–1940 are studied with the overarching purpose to investigate the link between professional work and private life. READ MORE