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1994
Much of the stimulus for the development of social gerontology as an academic discipline, and as an area of social concern, has come from the increase, over this century, in the number and proportion of persons classified as elderly. In this chapter we examine the demographic trends which have brought about the growth in the size of the elderly ...
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Much of the stimulus for the development of social gerontology as an academic discipline, and as an area of social concern, has come from the increase, over this century, in the number and proportion of persons classified as elderly. In this chapter we examine the demographic trends which have brought about the growth in the size of the elderly ...
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The demography of deinstitutionalization
New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983AbstractOnce defined as long‐term residents of psychiatric hospitals, the chronically mentally ill today are a heterogeneous population living in a variety of institutional and community settings.
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The demography of disadvantage
Journal of Population Research, 2004This paper discusses the contribution that demographers can make to the study of disadvantage. Demographers from Malthus onwards have been interested in analysing disadvantage through the lens of demographic variables, notably fertility, mortality and population growth, and their effect on poverty and welfare, both at an aggregate level and in terms of
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DEMOGRAPHY: Enhanced: Broken Limits to Life Expectancy
, 2002J. Oeppen
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Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
Demographic Research Monographs, 2019H. Caswell
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Demography and its effects on genomic variation in crop domestication
Nature Plants, 2018B. Gaut +3 more
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2012
This article discusses the demographic history of slavery. It covers the origins of African slavery, dimensions of the African slave trade, distribution of the slave population in 1825, health and mortality of slave populations, plantation conditions in the United States and in the sugar colonies, and fertility.
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This article discusses the demographic history of slavery. It covers the origins of African slavery, dimensions of the African slave trade, distribution of the slave population in 1825, health and mortality of slave populations, plantation conditions in the United States and in the sugar colonies, and fertility.
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