Population, Mortality and Health
Objectives
Objective of the research theme Population, Mortality and Health is the study of mortality, health, nutrition and health care use at the population level, using demographic techniques. I t entails (a) the description of the trends at different scale levels and global, national and regional differences therein, (b) its explanation using both contextual and individual-level factors, and (c) projections for the future based on the previous.
The research is very interdisciplinary in nature, using next to demographic techniques the concepts and approaches from geography, epidemiology and pharmaco-epidemiology.
Ongoing Projects
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