About

The research programme of PRC, entitled "Population, Health, Society, Space", includes research on population and health with emphasis on societal (especially culture, religion, gender) and spatial dimensions.

The major research themes, reflecting the major expertise of the staff, are:

• Reproductive Health and Culture
• HIV-AIDS and Gender
• Mortality, Health, and Health Seeking Behaviour
• Population, Economy and Space

Integrating the expertise of the team, present and upcoming research projects focus on, for example:

• Reproductive health of migrants in India. Researchers - Inge Hutter and Leo van Wissen
• HIV-AIDS risk assessment among men migrants in Goa. Researcher  - Ajay Bailey
• Reproductive health of religious minorities in India and Bangladesh. Researcher - Biswamitra Sahu
• The Islamic discourse on gender, sexuality and HIV-AIDS in Indonesia. Researcher -  Nadja Jacubowski
• The changing lives of women, Indonesia and India. Researchers - Nadja Jacubowski and others
• Migration in Indonesia: employment, gender. Researcher - Elda Pardede
• Child mortality: health seeking behaviour and demographic outcome in India. Researcher - Fanny Janssen
• Cause-specific mortality in India. Researcher - Ganesh Sharnngadharan
• Perceptions, attitudes of health personnel on Safe Motherhood, Ghana. Researcher - Aagje Papineau-Salm
• Cost-effectiveness of integrated respiratory care in Nepal. Researcher - Samir K.C., in collaboration with Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Spatial dimensions of the marriage market in the Netherlands. Researcher - Karen Haandrikman
• Migration in Europe. Researcher - Beata Nowok; collaboration PRC-NIDI
• Multi-state modelling regarding chronic diseases. Researcher - Mieke Reuser; NIDI

Besides academic research, PRC is involved in research-for-action, applying research results into health care interventions.

In addition, the PRC team conducts short term projects and consultancies, a.o:

• Workshop Qualitative Research Methods (e.g. India, South Africa, Uganda, Kosovo)
• Qualitative research in reproductive health (e.g. abortion in Kosovo)
• Population projections (e.g. Europe, North Netherlands)
• Research-for-action (e.g. participation in projects in Uganda and Tanzania)
• Gender and HIV-AIDS (e.g. in South Africa)
• Statistical analysis (e.g. medicine use in Netherlands)

Until June 2006, the research programme included three major research themes: monitoring demographic change, reproductive health, and population and environment.