Migration and reproductive ecology influences on biological status of the population
General data
Course ID: | WB-BI-ANG-40 |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
13.1
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Course title: | Migration and reproductive ecology influences on biological status of the population |
Name in Polish: | Migration and reproductive ecology influences on biological status of the population |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences |
Course groups: | |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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Language: | English |
Subject level: | intermediate |
Learning outcome code/codes: | BI2_W01, BI2_W05, BI2_U05, BI2_ BI2_K07 |
Short description: |
Reproduction is the basis of life and evolution. Human reproductive ecology is research of human fertility over cross-cultural and ecological contexts. The major features of the human reproductive process must be considered in the theoretical context of the Life History Theory Exploring how migration across time and space has shaped modern human biology and continues to influence our daily lives, is important to understand the consequences biological integration in the past, and in the future. |
Full description: |
1. Global changes in lifestyles and their biocultural consequences on life cycle and reproductive health. 2. The influence of energetics on the allocation of reproductive effort. From Extreme thinness to obesity. 3. Malnutrition in the SDGs: stunting, wasting and overweight in children and adolescents. 4. Consequences of sociocultural transformation in reproductive behaviors. From natural fertility to its generalized control through contraception 5. Nutritional, Sexual and reproductive Health in the United Nations Agenda 2030, 6. Linking the ecology of reproduction with migration, demography and gender. 7. Biological aspects of human migration and mobility. Concept and types of migration. 8. Biosocial indicators to evaluate migration and its consequences 9. Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDS) |
Bibliography: |
Bernis C. 1999. Health of women: changing lifestyles and reproductive health. In Horani M. Y Boleyn T. Eds Health, Culture and Human- Environment Interaction: 153-174,. Routledge, London and New York.: 153-174. ISBN 0-415-15446-4 (hbk) Bernis C, Varea C. 2013. Pregnancy and delivery in Spanish and migrant women: an ecological approach. Anthropological Review . Vol. 76 (2), 129–150. Bernis, C., Varea, C. (2018). “Luces y sombras de la evaluación del progreso en la Agenda 2020 de NNUU: revisión de las dimensiones e indicadores de género incluidos en el ODS5”. SHE Conference 2018 Proceedings [E-reader version] (En prensa). Ellison PT (ed.) (2001) Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution, published by Aldine de Gruyter (ISBN 0-202-30657-7 cloth, ISBN 0-202-30658-5). Mascie-Taylor CGN, Krzyzanowska. 2017. Biological aspects of human migration and mobility. Annals of Human Biology, 44, 5 Varea C; Teran JM; Bernis C; Bogin B; Gonzalez-Gonzalez A.2016. Is the economic crisis affecting birth outcome in Spain? Evaluation of temporal trend in underweight at birth (2003–2012). Annals of Human Biology. pp. 1 -14. Taylor & Francis, 01/01/2016. ISSN 03014460 Wood, JW (1994), Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography published by Aldine de Gruyter. (ISBN 0-202-01180-1). |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
The student will be assessed on the basis of: 1. Presence at lectures and exercises 2. Participation in the discussion 3. Own participation in work on the discussed publications 4. Oral presentation of the most important conclusions from lectures |
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