Geostatistical Modelling of Child Chronic Undernutrition in Developing Countries Using Remote-sensed Data: Evidence from Bangladesh and Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys
Seminar
Malnutrition remains a critical problem globally. Unfortunately while the global prevalence has been declining over time, as a result of concerted public health efforts, there are areas (notably in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia) where progress has stagnated. These regions are also resource-poor…
HDR Thesis Proposal Review Seminar
Seminar
This Thesis Proposal Review seminar presents the rationale and planned approach for a thesis project titled Exploring the effectiveness of Australia’s skilled migration policy: successes, challenges and unexpected outcomes. Migration in Australia contributed more to the population growth rate than…
Demography Flash Session: 2 Presentations in Advance of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America
Seminar
Housing, Marriage, and Childbearing Pathways in a Low-Fertility Setting Using a life course perspective, this study aims to identify the multi-trajectories of housing, marriage, and childbearing across adulthood in Taiwan and examine whether earlier life circumstances are associated with…
School of Demography Flash Session: Two Presentations
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Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to Multiple Multistate Method Many studies have examined individual measures of health expectancy such as disability and morbidity among older populations. However, very few included multiple dimensions of health when calculating health expectancy.…
Mapping Social Cohesion 2022
Seminar
The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study is the pre-eminent source of information on social cohesion in Australia. Running since 2007 and with surveys of the Australian population conducted annually since 2009, the study provides a rich and long-running set of data…
East-West Mortality Divide During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe: Empirical Results and Possible Explanations
Seminar
Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in global life expectancy (LE) decrease with substantial geographical variations. One of the most contrasting patterns of LE losses are observed between countries of Western (WE) and Eastern (EE) Europe. Though the first wave of 2020 predominantly affected the WE…