ABSTRACT
This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of African population dynamics, variations, causes and consequences, demonstrating the real-world applications of research in policies and programmes.
African demography has come of age. Over 50 years, the discipline has grown exponentially in the number of training and research institutions, specialist experts and academic output, all with an aim of addressing the enormous demographic challenges faced by the continent. The book draws on old and emerging analytical tools to explore the relationships between population dynamics and social, economic, cultural and political environments from African perspectives. Key topics include fertility, sexual behaviours, healthcare, ageing, mortality, migration, displacement, the causes and consequences of demographic changes and teaching and research developments in African demography.
The Routledge Handbook of African Demography will be an essential resource for students and researchers of African demography, sociology, development and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|30 pages
Introductory chapters
part 2|117 pages
Demographic training and research
chapter 6|33 pages
The Demographic Research in Lusophone Africa
part 3|164 pages
Marriage, fertility and SRH
chapter 12|35 pages
Fertility Transition in Africa
chapter 14|20 pages
Before Pills and Injectables
chapter 15|16 pages
From Post-Colonialism to Cairo to Now
part 4|48 pages
Gender in African demography
chapter 18|19 pages
Gender Norms and Sexual Behavior among Very Young Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa
part 5|172 pages
Environment, health and demography
chapter 24|25 pages
The Double Burden of Malnutrition among Adults in Subsaharan Africa
chapter 25|17 pages
Child Disability and Deprivation
chapter 26|17 pages
Effect of Economic Growth on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 27|15 pages
Human Health Effects of Desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa
part 6|56 pages
Migration
chapter 29|26 pages
Internal Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
part 7|87 pages
Demographic dividend
chapter 34|27 pages
The Economic Lifecycle and Africa's Demographic Dividend
part 8|51 pages
Ageing
chapter 37|24 pages
Intergenerational Family Support and the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa
part 9|91 pages
Mortality
chapter 38|14 pages
Causes of Death and the Double Burden of Disease in Africa
chapter 39|24 pages
Dynamics of Adult Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 40|18 pages
Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 42|20 pages
Infant and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
part 10|56 pages
Concluding matters