2. This is a research seminar
I am providing a general outline
You are making presentations of your:
● research project
● review of current or other literature
● report on country specific, or
● any other project related to our general topic
Finally you will have an exam or something like this.
I will be your examiner, thus the result depends upon your work in class.
4. Classes
1. Jan 28, 18-10—21-00
2. Feb 11, 15-10—18-00
3. Feb 25, 15-10—18-00
4. Mar 10, 18-10—21-00
5. Mar24, 18-10—21-00
5. What is reproductive health ?
● RH is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters
relating to the reproductive system, at all stages of life.
● It implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life, the
capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often
to do so.
● Men and women should be informed about and have access to safe,
effective, affordable, and acceptable methods of family planning of their
choice.
6. What is family planning?
Family planning is a conscious effort of couples or individuals to
control the number and spacing of births.
7. Study topics (some)
● Reproductive health (fecundity, infertility, diseases)
● Safe motherhood, maternal mortality
● Family planning, birth control, methods’ development and history
● Unwanted pregnancy and safe abortion
● Risky sexual behavior, STDs and HIV/AIDS epidemics
● Adolescents
● Gender inequality and domestic violence
8. more topics
● measures of reproductive health
● contraceptive prevalence and unmet need
● world trends
● problems in Russia and other nations
● population health policies (examples)
● and more
9. The most acute problems, according to the UN
1. risky sexual behavior and its consequences
2. high maternal mortality (avoidable in most cases)
3. gender inequality and gender violence
4. access to RH care (esp for youth and migrants)
5. early motherhood
10. Outcomes of Pregnancies, Worldwide, 2012
Sedgh, G., Singh, S. and Hussain, R. (2014), Intended and Unintended Pregnancies Worldwide in 2012
and Recent Trends. Studies in Family Planning, 45: 301–314
11. Think about your research project
● Make your choice from the above list
● Combine two or more topics
● Offer your own topic
It is important for you
Why it might be also important for others?
12. Data sources
● Aggregated/tabulated
○ National statistical and special agencies
○ UN family (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA)
● Raw data
○ DHS (http://www.dhsprogram.com/)
○ MICS (http://mics.unicef.org/)
○ RLMS-HSE (http://www.hse.ru/en/rlms/)
etc
● Secondary data
○ pubmed/medline,
○ google scholar,
○ etc
13. Limitation of Data
● sensitive
● self-reported
● gender discrimination
● objective measurements and diagnostics
14. Heterogeneity of Data
● Quantifiable
● Quantifiable in Principle
○ sexual practices
○ use of contraception
○ personal hygiene
● Qualitative
proximate and contextual variables
15. Why demography ?
In many universities it is a subject of a division of public health or even
medicine, sometimes sociology/gender studies
Basic balance equation:
● migration
● mortality
● fertility
Mostly related to women
RH of men = future?
16. Why HIV/AIDS ?
● mortality and population structures
● sex and sexual behavior
● fertility
● family stability and orphanhood
● women is a vulnerable group, as well as children
17. Biodemographic measures
● Sex ratios (foetal, at birth, at age at marriage, at age 50)
● Age (at menarche, at the first coitus, at marriage, at birth, at menopause)
● Intervals (to marriage, to the 1st birth, between births)
● Fertility, fecundity, fecundability
● Natural and observed fertility
● Delayed marriage, fertility aging
18. Sex ratio at birth (normally 105 boys per 100 girls)
why not 1 to 1? (Fisher's principle)
differs with age
sexual preferences and examples of unusual deviations?
countries
23. Reproductive cycle, the USA, about 2000
● when a mother became
a grandmother ?
● a new cycle
main intervals:
● to menarche
● to menopause
● m-m
● men-1st sex
● 1st sex-marriage
24. Demographic Transition
● mortality
● migration
● from natural fertility to controlled fertility
● from traditional regime of reproduction to modern regime
27. The second half
why am I attending this class?
1. my major field of interest is ……
2. from the class I am expecting to improve my knowledge on …
3. the most interesting topics are ….
4. least interesting for me are ….
5. I am going to make my class project on …. (suggest, might be
changed)
