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The Social Sciences and Population Studies [SSPS] Study Section reviews applications related to population processes, composition and distribution, their antecedents and consequences, and their inter-relationships with social, cultural, economic, behavioral, developmental and biomedical factors and processes. This includes studies of migration, mortality and health, residential distribution, reproduction, sexual health, population aging, labor force and retirement, household and family structure, intergenerational relations, and biodemography in the U.S. and other countries. Specific areas covered by SSPS:

• Fertility, including studies of conception, pregnancy, birth, and pregnancy outcomes; contraceptive use and sexual behavior; infertility; birth spacing and timing; birth intentions; value of children; interrelationships with the status and roles of women and men, health, union formation and dissolution, and other related social, cultural, economic, behavioral, and biological processes.
• Mortality, health, functioning and disability; differentials, trends and projections for individuals, groups and populations; studies of perinatal, infants, child, adult and elderly health and mortality; interrelationships with demographic, social, economic, behavioral, and biobehavioral processes; health economics.
• Migration, emigration and immigration, including movement of people within and across national boundaries; social, cultural, economic, behavioral, and health factors and processes associated with population movement; processes related to migration [e.g., acculturation, adaptation].
• Population composition and changes in composition, such as population aging, and the interrelationships between demographic, economic and social processes;  household and family structure, economic status and inequality, health status, intergenerational exchanges and bequests, and impacts on public programs; employment, labor force and retirement; studies of interrelationships between health,  migration, fertility and family and household structure; impacts of public and private programs on health, family structure, labor force transitions and income security of the elderly.
• Population and the environment; interrelationships between population processes and the physical environment. 

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Health Service s Organization and Delivery [HSOD] 
Community-Level Health Promotion [CLHP] 
Community Influences on Health Behavior [CIHB] 
Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes [SPIP]