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Population Dynamics Approaches for Research and Action in Global Health

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This chapter covers concepts and approaches in population dynamics – the branch of science that addresses mathematically the quantitative evolution of human and nonhuman populations, from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives – which are relevant to research and action in the global health context of the ever-changing size and structure of global, regional, national, and subnational populations of different species on the planet. Such concepts are often not defined or muddled, and this easily renders analyses based on these approaches vague. Given widely diverse backgrounds of the community of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and planners involved in today’s population and global health issues, these approaches and methods are presented without the mathematical apparatus generally embedded in them, to encourage their utilization in research and action.

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  1. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Barthelemy Kuate Defo

  2. Department of Demography, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Barthelemy Kuate Defo

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Robin Haring

  2. Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and, Geneva, Switzerland

    Ilona Kickbusch

  3. Charite-Univ.-Med. Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Detlev Ganten

  4. Africa, Brazzaville, Rep of the Congo, World Health Organization Regional Offic, Brazzaville, Congo, Demographic Republic (Zaire)

    Matshidiso Moeti

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Kuate Defo, B. (2021). Population Dynamics Approaches for Research and Action in Global Health. In: Haring, R., Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_19-1

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