This module provides a practical introduction to the concepts, methods and techniques of demography, and an overview of substantive aspects of population such as age structure, fertility and nuptiality, mortality and morbidity, migration, urbanisation, and population ageing. Course exercises, using computers, enable students to acquire the skills to calculate basic demographic measures. Students will develop an understanding of population trends globally and in South Africa, and of the role of demography as a basis for applied disciplines in the health field, particularly for epidemiology, and for health policy and planning.
Evaluation is done through a written assignment and a class test.