Pop digests

PopDigests

PopDigests are short, comprehensive summaries of research results with a link to the original publication (if accessible online). This allows population experts and other interested audiences to be able to easily access information to the latest research results. 

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Complex migrant journeys depend on four factors: knowledge, networks, life situation – and chance

Migrant journeys are complex and can be unpredictable. Migration routes can change, sometimes rapidly. This creates challenges for policy and for computer simulations of migrant routes. Researchers have identified four crucial factors for migration modelling – and they caution against oversimplifying reality.

Jakub Bijak, Souhila Belabbas and Ariana Modirrousta-Galian have identified four crucial factors for migration modelling – and they caution against oversimplifying reality.

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Lowered minimum legal drinking age associated with increased alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality decades later

In their cohort study published in the Lancet Public Health, Juha Luukkonen et al. assessed whether being legally able to purchase alcohol at younger age was associated with later alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality.

In their study published in the Lancet Public Health, Juha Luukkonen et al. assessed whether legally purchasing alcohol at a younger age was associated with later alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality.