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Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
BD110Demographic Structure and HealthCompulsory123
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to provide general demographic concepts, components, and teach indicators. maternal and child health, and to provide updated information on nutrition and the social and economic effects of population by studying changes in the population to discuss, population, and to assess the relationship between nutrition and health. Overview of the concept of demography during the course, data sources, evaluation of population and population policies in Turkey and the world, factors and criteria affecting the population, population growth rate, birth, mortality rates, migration, urbanization, fertility rates in our country and factors affecting them, nutrition and health
Name of Lecturer(s)
Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Fatma CEBECİ
Learning Outcomes
1Learn general demographic concepts.
2Discuss the changes in population structure and its social and economic impacts.
3Has knowledge about immigration and urbanization.
4Learn maternal and child health indicators and updated values.
5Learns nutritional and anthropometric indicators and current values.
Mode of Delivery
Second Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Introduction to demography, definitions, Data sources, methods, Population size, structure, composition, Fertility, factors affecting fertility, Mortality, Migration Urbanization, Maternal and child health, Nutrition and anthropometric indicators.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Introduction to demography, concepts and methods
2Population size, density and distribution
3Population age and gender structure
4Population marital status and disability structure
5Population learning status
6The situation of the population in terms of economic activity
7Population growth and population policies
8MIDTERM EXAM
9Factors affecting fertility and fertility
10Factors affecting mortality and death
11Marriages and divorces
12Mother and Child health
13Migration and Urbanization
14Relationship between population, nutrition and health, demographic transformation of Turkey
15General Discussion
Recommended or Required Reading
• Haupt A., Kane T. (2000), POPULATION HANDBOOK 4TH EDITION, Washington. • HUIPS, 1999, 1998 TURKISH DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY, Ankara. • Türkiye’nin Demografik Dönüşümü: 1968 2008; Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç ve ark. • Türkiye Nüfus ve Sağlık Araştırma Raporu, 2008 • Türkiye Nüfus ve Sağlık Araştırma Raporu, 2003 • Türkiye Nüfus ve Sağlık Araştırma Raporu, 1998
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14228
Question-Answer14228
Self Study14114
Individual Study for Mid term Examination2510
Individual Study for Final Examination2612
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)95
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