Articles & Commentary
Short pieces on population measurement, migration, health systems and research practice. Written for this site; not statements by the Population Association of Pakistan.
Measurement & method
- Counting Migrants: Why Diaspora Populations Are Hard to Measure — residence definitions, systematic undercounting, and what improves the count.
- Framingham: The Study and the Town That Changed the Health of a Generation — what seventy years of longitudinal follow-up produced, and what it cost.
- Setting Realistic Research Goals — scoping a project so it can be finished.
Migration
- Diaspora, Identity and the Demography of Migration — how emigration reshapes an age structure, twice.
Health systems & young populations
- Stroke Care Gains in Puerto Rico Falter After Hurricane Maria — disaster, age structure and the fragility of time-critical care.
- Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Services to Youth and Young Adults — wilderness therapy models and adolescent mental health.
- Professional School Counselling: Best Practices for Working in Schools — reaching a young population at scale.
- Recognising Public Service in Population and Health Programmes — retention of the frontline workforce behind every indicator.