Search for dissertations about: "demography"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 156 swedish dissertations containing the word demography.

  2. 11. Infant and child mortality in Eritrea : levels, trends, and determinants

    Author : Gebremariam Woldemicael; Basia Zaba; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : demografi; Demography;

    Abstract : This thesis has three main objectives: first, to estimate age-specific levels, age patterns and period trends in early mortality at national and sub-national levels in Eritrea; second, to investigate the major possible determinants of infant and child mortality; and third to discuss implications of the main findings for health policy and future research directions.The data used for this study come from the 1995 Eritrea Demographic and Health Survey of 5,469 households and 5,054 women in the reproductive age span. READ MORE

  4. 12. Trying to make a living - Studies in the economic life of women in interwar Sweden

    Author : Linda Lane; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; demography; discrimination; gender; income; labour market; occupations; standard of living; Sweden; trade unions;

    Abstract : Studies of the emerging economic roles of women have been dominated by the Anglo-American discourse. Female experiences of economic life in these countries are often interpreted as universal. This dissertation argues that institutional arrangements particular to specific societies generate different outcomes. READ MORE

  5. 13. On dental caries and socioeconomy in Swedish children and adolescents - Clinical and register-based studies

    Author : Ann-Catrin André Kramer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; DMF indices; demography; epidemiology; gender; incidence; parents; preschool child; prevalence; residence characteristics; socioeconomic factor;

    Abstract : The overall aim was to analyze the dental caries experience among Swedish children and adolescents and explore it with respect to demographic and socioeconomic factors. Study I is a longitudinal clinical study of 271 children, followed from three to six years of age (2003-6), with the aim to analyze initial and manifest caries in the primary dentition. READ MORE

  6. 14. Inferring Evolutionary Processes of Humans

    Author : Sen Li; Mattias Jakobsson; Ludovic Orlando; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Approximate Bayesian Computation; TMRCA; demography; human evolution; Bantu-Expansion; Out-of-Africa;

    Abstract : More and more human genomic data has become available in recent years by the improvement of DNA sequencing technologies. These data provide abundant genetic variation information which is an important resource to help us to understand the evolutionary history of humans. READ MORE

  7. 15. Effects of Habitat Quality on Behavioural Decisions and Population Dynamics in the Siberian Jay

    Author : Magdalena Nystrand; Jan Ekman; Erik Matthysen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Biology; Perisoreus infaustus; relatedness; delayed dispersal; predation risk; foraging; trade-off; demography; source-sink dynamics; forest structure; Biologi;

    Abstract : The dynamics of natural populations may be influenced by a variety of factors, ranging from feeding interference and territoriality to the risk of predation and climatic effects. The relative influence of these factors may be contingent upon the quality of the habitat in which individuals reside. READ MORE