1 Department of Sociology and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington 2 Department of Sociology, University of Washington 3 Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington 4 School of Public Health, Harvard University 5 Department of Statistics, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences,...

Dr. Zitha Mokomane is a Senior Research Specialist in the Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. She holds a MA and a PhD (Family Demography), both from the Australian National University. Before joining the Human Science Research Council, Dr Mokomane was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Studie...

background: stress and anxiety are consideredto be one of the the most common and effective disorders in patients with breast cancer. there was aparadoxical relationship between stress and anxiety, with spiritual wellbeing in cancer patients, such as breast cancer, in the findings of studies from other countries. moreover, there was a lack of similar studies in iran.therefore, this led research...

Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America, has been given the highest rating among demographic journals by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Our aim here is to investigate the development of research subfields and female authorship in Demography over the last 50 years. We find that female authorship in Demography has risen considerably since the 1980s an...

Background Population variables and processes are intimately and crucially related to the past, present and future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This paper reviews some of the main demographic trends among Jews and Arabs in Israel and Palestine, presents some new population projections covering the period 2000-2050, and discusses some possible policy implications of the emerging demograp...

Demographers' interest in the environment has generally been enmeshed in broader issues of population growth and economic development. Empirical research by demographers on environmental issues other than natural-resource constraints is limited. In this paper, I briefly review past demographic thinking about population and the environment and suggest reasons for the limited scope of demographic...

Management of invasive populations is typically investigated case-by-case. Comparative approaches have been applied to single aspects of management, such as demography, with cost or efficacy rarely incorporated.We present an analysis of the ranks of management actions for 14 species in five countries that extends beyond the use of demography alone to include multiple metrics for ranking managem...