(n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All persons were sent a 12-page questionnaire dealing with matters of health, employment, social support, demography, medical economics, expressed needs, and relationship with the rehabilitation agency.
(2) Two competing models of age demography were tested.
(3) Patients in both groups were of comparable demography.
(4) Without a large number of stably integrated neighbourhoods, without an influx of new immigrants, without a substantial drop in violent crime and without any trust between the police and the community, the new chapter of urban demography and racial conflict in the northwest suburbs of St Louis looks a lot like the old chapter in the city itself.
(5) The increased attention in US medicine to medical ethics reflects in large part the "new" demography of a growing elderly population and the conflict of whether decisions regarding medical care should be based on cost-effectiveness or "human-effectiveness."
(6) The method is applied to the HIV epidemic among IV drug users in the Latium region of Italy, using available data on the length of the incubation period before the onset of AIDS, on the infectivity of infected individuals during that period, and on the demography of drug users.
(7) The demand for care at home is set to grow rapidly – changing patterns of disease and demography will see more us with long-term conditions and frailty in older age.
(8) On the other hand, very little is known about the epidemiology and demography odontogenic tumours.
(9) In comparing these drugs, the following issues are important: pathophysiology, patient demography, mechanism of drug action, long-term efficacy, and metabolic effects.
(10) These children were selected from a total of 242,596 proportionally chosen with respect to demography of each of the twelve regions in the area with weight, height and bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and abdominal skin folds being measured.
(11) A unified approach is developed for the evolutionary structure of mammalian life histories; it blends together three basic components (individual growth or production rate as a function of body size, natural selection on age of maturity, and stable demography) to predict both the powers and the intercepts of the scaling allometry of life history variables to adult size.
(12) The treatment groups appeared identical in terms of patient demography, underlying disease and other risk factors, though patients with a clinical site of infection responded more slowly than those without.
(13) This article is a comprehensive review of the demography, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of near-drowning, an accident that affects approximately 6,000 to 7,000 Americans per year.
(14) Thirty healthy, drinking young adult sons of alcoholics were matched with 30 sons of nonalcoholics on demography, drug use, and alcohol use histories.
(15) The institutions actually performing carotid endarterectomies differ from the clinical trials in their demography and perioperative mortality rates.
(16) (1) The age-adjusted gastric cancer mortality rate (the demography of Japan in 1965 was used for the standard population) began to decline in 1968, and the mean mortality rates were 60.5 per 100,000 population in 1958-1967 and 38.6 in 1981, showing 21.9 decrease in 14 years in Niigata Prefecture.
(17) Women co-infected with C. trachomatis were similar to those with gonococcal infection alone in terms of demography, type of sexual contact, previous sexually transmitted disease, genitourinary symptoms, and clinical signs.
(18) AIDS and HIV-1 infection may have a significant impact not only on public health, but also on the demography and socioeconomic conditions of some developing countries.
(19) A review of the profession's stand at that time, and changes in demography of the elderly population since then, suggests that the position of the profession arrived at in the 1960's needs to be reexamined.
(20) This paper uses stochastic demography to analyze the fluctuating population structure produced by environmental uncertainty.
Ethnography
Definition:
(n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Making use of ethnography provides family physicians with a greater array of research methods compatible with clinical practice.
(2) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(3) They also present some of the major conceptual foundations of cultural psychiatry, which include ethnography, emic and etic approaches, the cross-cultural approach, and the study of subjective culture.
(4) This study is an ethnography of the ethics of one pediatric bone marrow transplant team.
(5) It outlines the advantages and limitations of such data sources as surveys, indicators, and ethnography, and briefly explores the work and utility of local, national, and international drug surveillance networks.
(6) Building on this theoretical background, an approach to ethnography is illustrated through an analysis of suffering in Chinese society.
(7) The findings of this analysis lead the author to argue, in contrast with recent ethnographies which treat discourses on emotions as rhetorical strategies rather than as reflections of personal or communal experience, that we need an integrative approach which focuses on the relationship between language and experience, politics and felt emotion.
(8) A longitudinal, clinical ethnography formed the basis of this study.
(9) This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design addressing the same question.
(10) An overview of the purpose, methodology, strengths, and limitations of ethnography is presented.
(11) These matters concern the epistemological basis of ethnography, and the reliability of ethnographic research methods.
(12) A longitudinal, descriptive ethnography formed the basis of the study described in this article, in which 120 interviews were conducted over a period of 6 months with 13 individuals who had experienced lacunar infarcts of the internal capsule of the brain.
(13) In response to this concern, this study presents a framework of analysis based on ethnography as narrative of the old and the new.
(14) This research uses ethnography and grounded-theory methods to develop a model of recovering alcoholics' goal progression.
(15) Issues in family medicine such as patient compliance, doctor-patient relationships, and patients' subjective experience of illness may be optimally studied with ethnography.
(16) Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy.
(17) Clinical ethnography as an alternative method of studying stroke recovery is described.
(18) Ethnography presents the researcher with a methodology for studying meaning carefully; a process for going beyond what is seen or heard to infer what people know by careful listening and observation of behavior, environment, and context.
(19) Qualitative research methods dominate in the humanities (history, literature), theology, law and some social sciences (ethnography).
(20) Medical anthropologist Daisy Deomampo, who has written an ethnography of surrogate mothers in Mumbai, argues that this image of the “deceitful surrogate” has helped doctors and parents conceal the power imbalance that made foreign surrogacy possible.