In this course, students will consider reproductive health from epidemiological and social perspectives. The occurrence and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy, optimal health care during pregnancy, reasons for poor pregnancy outcomes, reproductive health among disadvantaged groups, and strategies to reduce inequalities in reproductive health.
Under demography, the learners will be able to covers the measures of mortality, fertility and migration. Life table construction; multiple decrement life tables; stable populations; population projections. The core areas of demography like fertility, mortality, migration, and population aging in grown and growing countries. In population aging, global trends in disease, disability, biologic and social aspects of aging, and health inequalities at older ages. The biological, social, and demographic factors explaining levels, trends, and differentials in human fertility transition will be explored.
- Teacher: Ben Nsajju
- Teacher: Michael Wolwa
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