The workshop will address key issues, including disparities in mortality and treatment access for myeloproliferative diseases (MPDs) and acute leukemias. It will also include discussions on methodologies for managing mortality...
Lecturers: Dr. Auke Rijpma, Research Institute for History and Art History, Utrecht University Content:Historical demographers often rely on survival models to analyze events like mortality and health outcomes. While these...
Lecturers: Dr. Mayra Murkens, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Content: One of the main issues historical demographers face, is the lack of a proper estimation of the population at...
We warmly invite you to join us for the launch and information session of the new Open Research Europe Special Collection “Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health inequalities, 1800–2022”. Registration link:...
Lecturers: Dr. Péter Őri, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute Content: The lecture provides an overview of infant and child mortality prior to the demographic transition, paying particular attention to differences by...
Lecturer: Dr. Katarina Matthes, University of Zurich Content: The aim of this lecture is to provide an introduction to how mortality data can be used for retrospective modelling of an...
Lecturer: Dr. Sergi Trias-Llimós, Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Barcelona Content: This lecture introduces life tables as a fundamental tool for analysing mortality and health inequalities. It covers key demographic...
Scope and Objectives Through presentations the first virtual workshop explores projects that are transcribing historical demographic records. After the workshop interested researchers, practitioners, and citizen scientists start working on a...
There is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the...
The accurate registration of deaths has long been a challenge for researchers. Crises, such as epidemics, often led to a systematic underestimation of the disease itself- either to downplay its...
We are pleased to invite contributions to the GREATLEAP Conference which will take place on 11-13 May 2026 at Babeș-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The event...
