This seminar will survey the research literature in three areas of the demography of aging: (1) biodemography, (2) medical demography, and (3) social demography. In each area, the objectives are for students to obtain an understanding of key concepts, theories, methods, and research findings so that they can read, understand, and begin contributing to current research in the area.
This graduate-level course explores the theory and the method of ethnography through critiques and class discussions of exemplar ethnographies. The heart of the course is practice in learning how to do field work, write good field notes, and analyze data.
This seminar examines the impact of poverty and socioeconomic inequality, more generally, on the health of individuals and populations. Attention is given to both US and non-US populations. Topics covered include the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and socioeconomic inequality at the individual and population level; socioeconomic gradients in health; and the adequacy of public policy responses in the US and elsewhere to health inequity challenges in the age of globalization.
This seminar will cover selected topics in medical sociology such as social structure and health; social behavior and health; organization and financing of health care; and medical sociology (for example, social epidemiology, stress and coping, health and aging).
This course covers the substantive findings and policies/policy debates around key selected topics in population and health today in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models are used to understand, frame, define and evaluate these topics.