Three Decades of Research on Population and Health: <i>The ORSTOM Experience in Rural Senegal, 1962-1991</i>
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socioeconomicCréateur:
MicPie
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Oxf
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Abstract
When African countries became independent in the late 1950s and early 1960s, research on population was virtually non-existent in tropical Africa. At this time, modem demography was emerging as a new science. Until then, demography had focused mostly on population genetics and on mathematical models aiming at describing population dynamics. Modem epidemiological and statistical methods, now widely used throughout the world, were largely ignored in the field of population studies. Anthropologists paid little attention to demographic and health processes. Their focus was on local myths, religions, and social structure. Little attention was devoted to the cultural factors of population and health in tropical Africa. The concept of multidisciplinary research was not yet fashionable, and most researchers were working isolated in their own field.
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