s: Plenaries 1 Ageing 2 Census 7 Ethnicity 14 Families & households 23 Fertility & reproductive health 31 Health & mortality 40 Historical demography 48 Intergenerational transmissions 53 Life course linkages 55 Local government & planning 57 Methods & models 60 Migration 67 Population change, environment, resources & conflict 76 Posters 80 Workshops & training sessions 104 Index to contributor...

Background For researchers working in gerontology or the demography of ageing, knowledge and access to population-based data, which includes mature age respondents, is critical. The collection metadata (information describing data) supports their search for relevant data.
 Aims This proof-of-concept project seeks develop a database including on Australian sample surveys ageing over period ...

The purpose of this article is to identify the role of population size, population growth and population ageing in models of endogenous economic growth. While in exogenous growth models demographic variables are linked to economic prosperity mainly via the population size, the structure of the workforce, and the capital intensity of workers, endogenous growth models and their successors also al...

Introduction: The demography of Bulgaria is characterized by a steady trend for a negative natural growth and increase of the relative share of elderly people. This is a challenge to the health and the social systems. Social reports point out: a) unsatisfactory pensions, and b) impoverishment of the group of elderly persons above retirement age. In this context a greater number of people with d...

Abstract While “classical” demography imputes population ageing to low fertility, a recent “revisionist” line of thinking signals the emergence “from top” (i.e., due mortality), starting slightly after World War II. We join this debate proving that, in long run, mortality affects age structure, and therefore also ageing, more than customarily believed. With data taken from Human Mortality Datab...

This article aims to examine the ageing situation and social policy issues in the Osijek-Baranja County of eastern Croatia. Using historical evidence from census data, research suggests that the evolution of the ageing pattern has been mainly determined by such factors as development of the transport system, changes in political territorial organisation, supply of jobs in the cities, deagrarian...

We examine within a life-cycle set-up the simultaneous choice of health care and retirement (together with consumption), when health care contributes to both a reduction in mortality and in morbidity. Health tends to impact on retirement via morbidity, determining the disutility of work, and through longevity, determining the need to accumulate retirement wealth. In contrast, the age of retirem...

introduction: regarding the increasing number of elderly people, their quality of life becomes more important. spiritual well-being is one of the most important aspects of health status which has often been neglected in some nations. this study aims to identify the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life among the elderly people residing of zahedan city in 2016. methods: t...

The British National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 70th birthday on July 5, 2018. This article examines this anniversary through the lens of previous anniversaries. It examines seven documents close to each anniversary over a period of some 60 years, drawing on interpretive content analysis, based on the narrative dimensions of context (structure and finance); success or achievements; pro...