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Challenges of Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions

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Synonyms

Demographic transition; Epidemiologic transition

Definition

Demographic shift is any significant change in a population’s overall age and sex structure that may be the result of a series of economic, social, political, environmental, and cultural phenomena like, for instance, epidemics, wars, technological breakthroughs, financial crisis, or industrialization, as well as from the interaction between two or more of them. All those phenomena influence the inclination people have to have more children or not. Thus, the increased or decreased number of children that is added or subtracted from the population will affect the age and sex structure of this population and consequently its demographic and social dynamics.

Introduction

In this entry, demographic shift will be addressed as a concept as well its causes and consequences regarding population dynamics will be discussed. The causes and consequences of demographic shift then will be used to discuss the main connections between...

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  1. Centre for Engineering, Modelling and Applied Social Sciences, Territorial Planning Department, Federal University of ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil

    Leonardo Freire de Mello

  2. Centre for Engineering, Modelling and Applied Social Sciences, Post Graduate Programme in World Political Economy, Federal University of ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil

    Sara Aparecida de Paula

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Freire de Mello, L., de Paula, S.A. (2020). Challenges of Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_2-1

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