About the basic and introdction

1. Demography and Health

2. Course Objectives
1. Understand the structure, characteristics, and components of population and population
growth
2. Understand the consequences and the implication of population growth on health and
resource base
3. Conceptualize the interrelationship between population growth and sustainable
development.

3. Introduction to demography and health

4. Introduction to demography and health
Demography
Demography is scientific study of human population
It focuses on 3 phenomena:
i. Changes in population size
ii. Composition of population
iii. Population distribution in space
Important ‘demographic processes’ include fertility, mortality, marriage, & social mobility

5. Introduction to demography
Demography is the science of population.
The word was coined by a Belgian, Achille Guillard, who published his Eléments de statistique
humaine, ou démographie comparée (Elements of human statistics or compar ative
demography) in 1855.

6. Narrowest and broader sense of Demography
The narrowest sense is that of "formal demography." Formal demography is concerned with the
size, distribution, structure, and change of populations.
A broader sense includes additional characteristics of the units. These include ethnic
characteristics, social characteristics, and economic characteristic

7. Modern demography
Modern demography is the study of the
determinants and consequences of population
change and is concerned with virtually everything
that influences or can be influenced by population
size, composition and distribution.

8. Concept of population change
There are only two ways to enter a population by birth and by in-migration.
There are two ways to leave a population, by death and by out-migration.
Fundamental equations of population change

9. Thank You!