DEMG 633 - Population Processes I

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University of Pennsylvania

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Elo, Ewbank, Kohler, Preston, Soldo. Population Processes (PP) I is part of a two-course sequence designed to introduce students to the core areas of demography (fertility, mortality, migration, and population aging) and recent developments in the field. PP I is designed as a survey course to introduce students to a broad set of issues in health and mortality, and individual and population aging. The course covers topics in demographic and social perspectives on health and mortality in developed and developing countries and topics in population aging, such as global trends in disease, disability, and aging, biologic and social aspects of aging, and health inequalities at older ages. The course format consists of lectures and class discussions. The tow course sequence is required of Ph.D. students in Demography. Others interested in enrolling in only one of the courses may do so with the permission of the Chair of the Graduate Group in Demography.

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2.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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