population study
1Population study — In the field of medicine, a population study is a study of a group of individuals taken from the general population who share a common characteristic, such as age, sex, or health condition. This group may be studied for different reasons, such as …
2Population groups in biomedicine — Biomedical researchers subdivide populations into groups with the goal of improving the prevention and treatment of diseases. Many studies have found that disease susceptibility and environmental responses vary among U.S. ethnicities, among New… …
3Population control — is the practice of limiting population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. The practice has sometimes been voluntary, as a response to poverty, environmental concerns, or out of religious ideology, but in some times and places it has… …
4Population ecology — is a major sub field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment.cite book | last =Odum | first =Eugene P. | authorlink =Eugene Odum | title =Fundamentals of Ecology |… …
5Population Matters — Founder(s) David Willey Founded 1991 Location United Kingdom Key people …
6Population ageing — or population aging (see English spelling differences) occurs when the median age of a country or region rises. This happens because of rising life expectancy or declining birth rates. Excepting 18 countries termed demographic outliers by the… …
7Population stratification — is the presence of a systematic difference in allele frequencies between subpopulations in a population possible due to different ancestry. Population stratification is also referred to as population structure. Causes of population stratification …
8Population transfer — is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Banishment or exile is a similar process, but is forcibly applied to… …
9Population dynamics — is the branch of life sciences that studies short term and long term changes in the size and age composition of populations, and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes. Population dynamics deals with the way… …
10Population viability analysis — (PVA) is a species specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a given number of years. More… …
