Links Between Demographic and Kinship Transitions

Demographic dynamics and kinship in anthropological populations.

Changes in fertility and mortality affect the size of surviving sibling sets and thus numbers of surviving kin. Because the genealogical generations specifying kinship relations are not temporal cohorts and most plausible demographic changes in anthropological populations are period shocks, the effect of such shocks on kin counts are complex. Shocks increasing fertility or decreasing mortality ...

Regional Demographic and Epidemiologic Transitions

 The demographic and epidemiologic transitions in South Asia are resulting in an increasing share of the disease burden related to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).  The impact of these two transitions can either allow countries to benefit from the demographic dividend or miss the opportunity due to increased morbidity, disability, and mortality among the working-age population, and to increas...

On Demographic and Democratic Transitions

this essay considers the implications of the demographic transition for the emergence of modern democracy. although the idea of representative democracy was present in europe and north america in the late eighteenth century, here i am concerned with its realization—and this occurs much later. i argue that consideration of the demographic transition in western countries sheds light on what is so...

On the Democratic and Demographic Transitions

Turkey’s Epidemiological and Demographic Transitions: 1931-2013

BACKGROUND The causes of death have changed with regard to the epidemiological and demographic events in society. There is no evidence of prior research into the epidemiological transition in Turkey. This transition in Turkey should be observed starting with the Ottoman Empire period (19th to early 20th century). However, information about the Ottoman Empire is quite limited. AIMS To discuss ...