Living arrangements at old age and mortality risks
Seminar
Why some persons reach a greater age than others? This question generates researches in various fields. Among these, many demographers are interested in and, inter alia, try to find links between mortality and family characteristics. Our investigation focuses on the association of mortality…
Blue Zones: why people live longer and healthier in certain regions of the world
Lecture
Please join us for this public lecture presented by Prof Michel Poulain, Professor Emeritus, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Senior Researcher at Tallinn University, Estonia. ‘BLUE ZONE’ is a paradigm developed since 2000 with Dan Buettner, explorer for National Geographic and…
Demography at Open Day 2018
Seminar
The ANU School of Demography is a world-class demographic research centre. Our students and researchers examine some of the most important issues facing the world today, including fertility, family formation and change; mortality, ageing and health; and both national and international migration. We…
Subsequent Migration of Immigrants within Australia
Seminar
Australia is a major immigrant receiving country with over 28% of the population being born overseas. Understanding where immigrants have settled, and the relative attractiveness of these places in relation to others, is important for understanding the contributions of immigration to society and…
What’s driving IVF trends in Australia and internationally?
Seminar
The first IVF baby was born 40 year ago this year. It is now estimated that more than 7 million babies have been born through this revolutionary technology. While IVF has made parenthood a reality for many of the one in six couples who experience infertility, it has not been adopted in a universal…
Book Launch: An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion: Australia from 1788
Book launch
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion presents Australian traditions, myths and legends in an understanding but often critical light in the belief that such devices have often been used by interested parties and even governments to maintain social solidarity and to mould a very complex people into a…
What is Premature Mortality?
Seminar
What is Premature Mortality? There are two different approaches to measure it, an absolute one (setting a unique age threshold then dividing deaths into premature and adult) and a relative one (deriving the share of premature deaths from the age distribution of deaths). Both have pros and cons. The…