Public lecture - Later life health and well-being in ageing populations: European perspectives
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Europe is the world region in which population ageing is most advanced and debates about the implications, for older people themselves and society as a whole are fierce. One source of concern is the perception that family support for older people may be in decline just at the point at which it is…
Social influence in social media: Social influence in online social networks and successful ageing in Australia
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This is a PhD proposal seminar. Mahin Raissi is a PhD Candidate with ADSRI.
Public lecture - Facilitating adaptive capacity for natural hazards: Exploring cross-cultural and cultural perspectives
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In areas susceptible to experiencing natural hazard activity, a prominent risk management strategy is encouraging people to prepare in ways that increase their capacity to anticipate, cope with, adapt to, and recover from hazard impacts. Despite extensive efforts to do so, levels of hazard…
Burma - China frontier relations: the Kachin, the Kokang, the Shan, and the Wa in Burma’s Northeast Special District (1945-1960)
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The Burmese government during the 1960s had two major achievements - the agreement reached between the Government of Burma and the People’s Republic of China to settle the undemarcated portions of the Burma-China boundary in the Wa State and the surrendering of the…
An enhanced mortality database for improving estimates of life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
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Ching Choi, University of New South Wales Rob Hyndman, Monash University Len Smith, Australian National University COAG has undertaken to close the gap in Indigenous life expectancy within a generation, but it is difficult to monitor progress, due to changes in the method for estimating life…
An introduction to two dynamic microsimulation systems: SOCSIM and CAMSIM
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Associate Professor Heather Booth and Professor Zhongwei Zhao are both with ADSRI. Microsimulation modelling has been increasingly used in demography, anthropology and many policy-related research areas over the last 40 years. This seminar will provide an introduction to two demographic…
Transitions in mortality from cardiovascular disease in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei: What can we know from multiple causes of death data - PhD mid-term seminar
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Jiaying Zhao is a PhD Candidate with ADSRI.