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Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion, 2017 Demography is the science of human populations and, at its most basic, focuses on the processes of (i) fertility, (ii) mortality and (iii) mobility. Whereas modern states are typically in a reasonable position to keep records on both fertility and mortality, through birth and death registrations, as well as through censuses, measuring the mobility of ...
Ingmar Weber, Bogdan State
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The indirect health effects of malaria estimated from health advantages of the sickle cell trait
Nature Communications, 2019 Estimates of the burden of malaria often don't take wider, indirect effects on overall health into consideration. Here, Uyoga et al. estimate the indirect impact of malaria on children’s health in a case-control study, using the sickle cell trait as a ...
Sophie Uyoga +11 more
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Contraceptive discontinuation in Egypt as fertility returns to its 2000 level [PDF]
Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 2020 Purpose – The similarity of family planning (FP) indicators from EDHS2014 to that of EDHS2000 is alarming for policymakers and researchers who consider it as an echo of the past and a threat, which the FP programme has to face to prevent its progression.
Mona Khalifa +2 more
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The impact of method choice on the risk of contraceptive discontinuation: Egypt 2014 [PDF]
Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 2020 Purpose – In Egypt, the IUD is the most common contraceptive method since 1988 and has remained so despite a recent drop in its share from 59.9% in 2008 to 51.5% in 2014 in favour of hormonal methods, which increased from 19.7% for pills and 12.3% for ...
Mona Khalifa +2 more
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Electronic demography decision making system [PDF]
, 2020 The article suggests an approach to the development of an electronic demographic decision support system using data warehouse and interactive analytical processing OLAP.
Nabibekova, G.Ch.
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Are the four Baconian idols still alive in demography? [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, we examine the four Idols that beset human minds according to Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620). These are: Idols of the Tribe – false assertions resulting from the belief that «the sense of man is the measure of things»; Idols of the ...
Franck, Robert +3 more
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Maternal grand multiparity and intention to use modern contraceptives in Nigeria
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Grand multiparity and low contraceptive prevalence are dominant among Nigerian women. These elevate the risk of unintended pregnancies, high-risk fertility and adverse maternal and child health outcomes among women in the country, particularly
Bola Lukman Solanke +3 more
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Veterinary Medicine International, 2023 Biosecurity practice limits the occurrence of diseases and economic losses in fish farms. The objective of this study was to characterize fish farming in the Administrative Division of Wouri, Cameroon (3°97′04″–3°58′13″N; 9°76′78″–9°46′4.3″E) and assess ...
Fonkwa Georges +7 more
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Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2019 Background Unmet need for modern contraceptive remains a critical reproductive health challenge in Nigeria. Numerous studies in Nigeria and other countries have investigated the patterns, prevalence and associated factors of unmet contraceptive need.
Bola Lukman Solanke +3 more
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Human Biology, 2009 In the field of archaeology, demography has sometimes seemed something of a phantom science. Many explanatory models in archaeology have taken population density as a central theme. But the quantitative precision and broad sweep of the resulting formulations, scientific enough in their intentions, have often been undermined by the difficulties in the ...
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