Continuity and change across the population sciences

Peter A. Morrison

Expert InsightsPublished 1986

This paper is a revised and expanded version of a briefing presented to the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council of the National Institutes of Health on June 2, 1986, in Bethesda, Maryland. It discusses the broad range of academic disciplines covered by the term "population sciences," including sociology, economics, geography, biostatistics, etc. It then uses examples of various research efforts to illustrate the scientific advances being made, in which discoveries in one branch of the population sciences promote new discoveries in another. Finally, it considers the directions in which research is headed, noting the growing interconnectedness of the Population Centers of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and their evolving roles in advancing the population sciences. In particular, the author discusses the growing importance of large databases for research in the population sciences.

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Morrison, Peter A., Continuity and change across the population sciences. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1986. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7281.html.
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