Jon Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fafo Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6324-6759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Implementing a respondent-driven sampling design among domestic workers in China: Insights for broader population applications
The complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bamgombi (Baka): A critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies
Following Turnbull’s work on the Ik and the Mbuti (1965a; 1965c; 1968), anthropologists are by now accustomed to describe hunter-gatherer residential arrangements as being characterized by ‘flux’. Thus, local bands are seen as constantly changing and as having no fixed memberships, even though the existence of the bands themselves may be more or less permanent. According to Turnbull, flux is made possible by a permissive environment, but cannot b…
Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030: A systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Esti…
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030. We estimated levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2019, and conducted scenario-based projections of the U5MR …
Patterns and trends in causes of child and adolescent mortality 2000–2016: Setting the scene for child health redesign
The under-5 mortality rate has declined from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per 1000 live births in 2018. This improvement in child survival warrants an examination of age-specific trends and causes of death over time and across regions and an extension of the survival focus to older children and adolescents. We examine patterns and trends in mortality for neonates, postneonatal infants, young children, older children, young adolesc…
Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster
This paper examines the vulnerability of households to disasters, using an asset vulnerability framework to represent livelihoods. Such frameworks are widely employed to analyse household poverty and focus on living conditions and well-being rather than money-metric measures of consumption and income. The conceptualisation of household vulnerability is a challenge in current studies on coping with disasters. The paper considers whether a capital …
Hidden leaders: Results of the National Study of Associate Deans
Associate deans serve critical leadership roles in the functioning and management in higher education administration, but there is little professional preparation for the role. This study surveyed the perceptions of a random sample of 527 associate deans in colleges of arts and sciences, business, and education at US research-extensive and -intensive universities. There was a nearly equal portion of men and women in the sample, but little racial …
Mette Halskov Hansen: Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (Hesper) Scale
Objectives. We developed the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (HESPER) Scale, a valid and reliable scale to rapidly assess perceived needs of populations in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries. Methods. We generated items through a literature review; reduced the number of items on the basis of a survey with humanitarian experts; pilot-tested the scale in Gaza, Jordan, Sudan, and the United Kingdom; and field-t…
One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors of education and who have done significant work in the field of social issues and education) delineate and analyze the efforts (e.g., theoreti…
Studying children in armed conflict: Data Production, Social Indicators and Analysis
Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Infant and child mortality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has steadily reduced since 1967, even though fertility has remained extremely high. In this paper the determinants of infant and child mortality are discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of consanguineous marriages, short birth spacing and maternal education. It is shown that short birth spacings and type of marriage are more important determinants of infant mortality than mater…
Drought, Migration and Population Growth in the Sahel: The Case of the Malian Gourma: 1900-1991
This paper explores the development of the population of the Gourma in Northern Mali from the beginning of this century to the present. As part of Northern Sahel, the area has been hard-hit by at least four droughts this century and is among the least developed in Mali. The data used include the available population censuses, colonial records and recent survey research. The droughts of 1973 and 1984 may have increased child mortality, but the mos…
The Social Construction of Fertility: Population Processes on a Plantation in the Seychelles
Plantation Women and Children: Wage Labor, Adoption, and Fertility in the Seychelles
Unlike women in most countries women in Seychelles who have high labor participation also have high fertility. Silhouette Island one of the Seychelles is a single large coconut plantation. Silhouette women have a total marital fertility rate of approximately 8.3 to 9.3 which is higher than Seychelless overall rate of 5.4. Most women on Silhouette go to work every morning at the plantation. Reasons why they are able to work include: 1) having fair…
Famine and Population in Fukuoka Domain during the Tokugawa Period
One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
Drought, Migration and Population Growth in the Sahel: The Case of the Malian Gourma: 1900-1991
This paper explores the development of the population of the Gourma in Northern Mali from the beginning of this century to the present. As part of Northern Sahel, the area has been hard-hit by at least four droughts this century and is among the least developed in Mali. The data used include the available population censuses, colonial records and recent survey research. The droughts of 1973 and 1984 may have increased child mortality, but the mos…
Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster
This paper examines the vulnerability of households to disasters, using an asset vulnerability framework to represent livelihoods. Such frameworks are widely employed to analyse household poverty and focus on living conditions and well-being rather than money-metric measures of consumption and income. The conceptualisation of household vulnerability is a challenge in current studies on coping with disasters. The paper considers whether a capital …
Studying children in armed conflict: Data Production, Social Indicators and Analysis
Hidden leaders: Results of the National Study of Associate Deans
Associate deans serve critical leadership roles in the functioning and management in higher education administration, but there is little professional preparation for the role. This study surveyed the perceptions of a random sample of 527 associate deans in colleges of arts and sciences, business, and education at US research-extensive and -intensive universities. There was a nearly equal portion of men and women in the sample, but little racial …
Famine and Population in Fukuoka Domain during the Tokugawa Period
The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (Hesper) Scale
Objectives. We developed the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (HESPER) Scale, a valid and reliable scale to rapidly assess perceived needs of populations in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries. Methods. We generated items through a literature review; reduced the number of items on the basis of a survey with humanitarian experts; pilot-tested the scale in Gaza, Jordan, Sudan, and the United Kingdom; and field-t…
Famine and Population in Fukuoka Domain during the Tokugawa Period
Plantation Women and Children: Wage Labor, Adoption, and Fertility in the Seychelles
Unlike women in most countries women in Seychelles who have high labor participation also have high fertility. Silhouette Island one of the Seychelles is a single large coconut plantation. Silhouette women have a total marital fertility rate of approximately 8.3 to 9.3 which is higher than Seychelless overall rate of 5.4. Most women on Silhouette go to work every morning at the plantation. Reasons why they are able to work include: 1) having fair…
The Social Construction of Fertility: Population Processes on a Plantation in the Seychelles
Drought, Migration and Population Growth in the Sahel: The Case of the Malian Gourma: 1900-1991
This paper explores the development of the population of the Gourma in Northern Mali from the beginning of this century to the present. As part of Northern Sahel, the area has been hard-hit by at least four droughts this century and is among the least developed in Mali. The data used include the available population censuses, colonial records and recent survey research. The droughts of 1973 and 1984 may have increased child mortality, but the mos…
Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Infant and child mortality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has steadily reduced since 1967, even though fertility has remained extremely high. In this paper the determinants of infant and child mortality are discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of consanguineous marriages, short birth spacing and maternal education. It is shown that short birth spacings and type of marriage are more important determinants of infant mortality than mater…
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors of education and who have done significant work in the field of social issues and education) delineate and analyze the efforts (e.g., theoreti…
Studying children in armed conflict: Data Production, Social Indicators and Analysis
One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (Hesper) Scale
Objectives. We developed the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs (HESPER) Scale, a valid and reliable scale to rapidly assess perceived needs of populations in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries. Methods. We generated items through a literature review; reduced the number of items on the basis of a survey with humanitarian experts; pilot-tested the scale in Gaza, Jordan, Sudan, and the United Kingdom; and field-t…
Mette Halskov Hansen: Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School
Hidden leaders: Results of the National Study of Associate Deans
Associate deans serve critical leadership roles in the functioning and management in higher education administration, but there is little professional preparation for the role. This study surveyed the perceptions of a random sample of 527 associate deans in colleges of arts and sciences, business, and education at US research-extensive and -intensive universities. There was a nearly equal portion of men and women in the sample, but little racial …
Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster
This paper examines the vulnerability of households to disasters, using an asset vulnerability framework to represent livelihoods. Such frameworks are widely employed to analyse household poverty and focus on living conditions and well-being rather than money-metric measures of consumption and income. The conceptualisation of household vulnerability is a challenge in current studies on coping with disasters. The paper considers whether a capital …
Patterns and trends in causes of child and adolescent mortality 2000–2016: Setting the scene for child health redesign
The under-5 mortality rate has declined from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per 1000 live births in 2018. This improvement in child survival warrants an examination of age-specific trends and causes of death over time and across regions and an extension of the survival focus to older children and adolescents. We examine patterns and trends in mortality for neonates, postneonatal infants, young children, older children, young adolesc…
Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030: A systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Esti…
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030. We estimated levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2019, and conducted scenario-based projections of the U5MR …
The complexities of residential organization among the Efe (Mbuti) and the Bamgombi (Baka): A critical view of the notion of flux in hunter-gatherer societies
Following Turnbull’s work on the Ik and the Mbuti (1965a; 1965c; 1968), anthropologists are by now accustomed to describe hunter-gatherer residential arrangements as being characterized by ‘flux’. Thus, local bands are seen as constantly changing and as having no fixed memberships, even though the existence of the bands themselves may be more or less permanent. According to Turnbull, flux is made possible by a permissive environment, but cannot b…
Implementing a respondent-driven sampling design among domestic workers in China: Insights for broader population applications
Population (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Fertility (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works)