Despite being a small subfield of demography,t he fastest growing branch of raphy is likely biodemography. Currently, there are: (1) biological and demographic studies closely associated with human health, focusing on health surveys, a potentially useful area of research biomedical demography (also known as "epidemography" because it combines demographics and physics and epidemiology), as well as (2) studies at the intersection of biology and demography, a project with the term "biological demography" will be used. The Demographers describe the first branch as conducting joint study with epidemiologists.
This pertains to both fields and is crucial as well as for a deeper comprehension of human health. The challenge for second branch researchers is that larger obstacle. As in any cutting-edge, expanding multidisciplinary where these tiny branches create tangles in the field. As a result, it is challenging to give a cohesive framework for the biomedical research's ongoing demography. Utilizing is one method of moving forward in the layered organization of biological knowledge. This gives a foundation for organizing the research in a variety of classifications, including molecular and
from the cellular to the evolutionary and ecological.
For instance, the outcomes of research on diverse APOE gene alleles provide critical insight into Molecular pathways for various ischemic risk like Alzheimer's disease, coronary heart disease, and other while offering information on a chronic conditions with unique risk of a person developing these chronic disorders and subsequently influencing population design surveys and epidemiological model building forecasting.
Bibliography:
Carey J. R. (2008) Biodemography: research prospects
and directions. Demographic Research 19: 1749–58.