This is a list of readings to accompany educational content form JHSPH. This is only a list; due to copyright restrictions, users must individually locate any materials they wish to use. If you wish to locate any of the readings, you may find PubMed helpful.
Readings
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Module 1: Introduction and Population Growth
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| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Population Growth | U.S. Census Bureau. 2004. "Global Population Growth." Pp. 9-30 in: Global Population Profile: 2002. Washington D.C. United States Government Printing Office. |
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Module 2: Mortality
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| 3 | Mortality | Horiuchi, Shiro. 1999. "Epidemiological transitions in human history." Pp. 54-71 in Health and Mortality: Issues of Global Concern. New York: United Nations. |
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Module 3: Fertility
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| 4 | A Conceptual Framework for Studying Human Fertility |
Bongaarts, John. 1982. "The Fertility-Inhibiting Effects of the Intermediate Fertility
Variables." Studies in Family Planning 13(6/7):179-189. Johnston, Heidi Bart and Kenneth H. Hill. 1996. "Induced Abortion in the Developing World: Indirect Estimation." International Family Planning Perspectives 22(3):108-114. |
| 5 | Theories of Fertility Decline | Hirschman, Charles. 1994. "Why Fertility Changes?" Annual Review of Sociology 20:203-233. |
| 6 | Very Low Fertility | Morgan, S. Philip. 2003. "Is Low Fertility a Twenty-First Century Demographic Crisis?" Demography 40(4):589-603. |
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Module 4: Population Distribution and Health Disparities
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| 7 | Migration | Massey, Douglas L. 1995. "New Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S." Population and Development Review 63(3):631-652. |
| 8 | Urban Demography |
Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores, Kimberly A. Lochner, Theresa L. Osypuk and S.V. Subramanian. 2003. "Future Directions in Residential Segregation and Health Research: A Multi-level Approach. American Journal of Public Health 93(2):215-221. Montgomery, Mark R., Richard Stren, Barney Cohen and Holly E. Reed. 2003. "Why Location Matters." Pp. 29-75 (Chapter 2) in Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World. Washington D.C. National Academy Press. |
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Module 5: Family Demography
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| 9 | Family Demography |
Cherlin, Andrew J. 2005. "American Marriage in the Early 21st Century." The Future of Children 15(2):33-55. Lloyd, Cynthia. 2005. "The Transition to Marriage." Pp. 416-505 (Chapter 7) in Growing Up Global. Washington D.C. National Academy Press. |
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Module 6: Population Aging
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| 10 | Causes and Consequences of Population Aging | Hayward Mark D. and Zhenmei. Zhang. 2001."Demography of aging: a century of global change, 1950-2050." Pp. 69-85 in RH Binstock and LK George (eds.) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. New York: Academic Press. |
