Population ageing is occurring in many parts of the world. Likewise, in Myanmar, population is ageing with a fast acceleration. The government is trying to find ways to improve wellbeing of older persons, and labour force ...

Education plays an increasingly important role in preparing new labor market entrants for the workforce and providing skill upgrading throughout the working career. One of the basic criteria by evaluating the qualitative ...

In recent years, Bhutan has shown its progress in improving maternal death. Several measures were taken under the Reproductive Health Programme. These included increasing institutional deliveries, increasing the proportion ...

The rapidly increasing of population aging in Vietnam poses far-reaching impacts on various aspects of older persons’ life, especially their health status. Self-rated health can provide a holistic view of the health status ...

With the increasing life expectancy throughout the world, loneliness in old age is becoming an area of great concern. This study aims at evaluating the prevalence of loneliness and exploring whether social support networks ...

This dissertation examined the international retirement migration (IRM) decision-making process, subjective wellbeing, and cultural assimilation of Western retirees in Thailand by relying upon 2015-2016 mixed-methods primary ...

This thesis examines the role of education on cognitive ability among the older population of Thailand. The nationally-representative data primarily utilised in this thesis is 2016 Population Change and Well-being in the ...

This thesis aims to investigate whether the variation in sex composition of children can explain the variation of Vietnamese women's fertility desire. Vietnam has experienced rapid fertility decline since the middle of the ...

Teen pregnancy is considered a worldwide public health issue. According to United Nations Population Fund (2014), Mozambique was reported to be the country with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Southern Africa region. ...

The key purpose of this study is to explore socio-economic and demographic characteristics that influence modern contraceptive use of currently married women aged 15-49 in Myanmar. This study is contributing to fill the ...