Context: Political discourse is one way that policymakers and candidates for public office discuss societal problems, propose solutions, and articulate actionable policies that might improve population health. Yet we know little about how politicians define and discuss issues relevant to population health ...
Many demographic phenomena such as birth, death, life span, age, sex and so on are based on the biological attributes of population, hence demographic variables are highly correlated with health issues With the development of society and social practice, people's knowledge about demographic variable...
However, one branch of population research that has seen increasing interest has been in the area of social demography, where the determinants of individual behavior regarding fertility, marriage, and related areas has been studied. It is in that branch that issues of causal inference have arisen,...
Dependency on oil can only be changed through time and the infusion of money but even with these givens the transition is also dependent on the political and budgetary climate. The race is between crisis and cure. It is argued that the soft energy systems (biomass solar water heater wind ...
Based on data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and other different relevant studies, this study tried to explore the changing socio-demographic issues of aging, different health related issues such as morbidity, illness and disability, health care facilities and different government and non-...
Of particular concern was the treatment of population-related issues in these models and their adaptability to the needs of developing countries in terms of such factors as conceptual and methodological problems and the availability of accurate and diverse data and technical and computer infrastructure....
In the 1970s there was a major deceleration in the rate of growth of production and an acceleration in the rate of population increase. Sub-Saharan Africa is the only world region suffering a decline in per capita food production over the past 20 years. Growing population numbers have ...
This paper attempts to remove some sources of misunderstanding of the interpretation of the growth of population outlined in The Modern Rise of Population, particularly the lack of attention given to increased fertility and the emphasis on the importance of nutrition. On the first point, it is sho...
We also ran a further two analyses based on Broughton and Weitzel’s24 regional subdivisions. One involved samples related to mastodon and mammoth found in the Great Lakes region, whereas the other involved samples related to sloth and mammoth found in the US Southwest. In each of these ...
Testing density-dependence and path-dependence in long-term population dynamics under differentiated local contexts contributes to delineate the changing role of socioeconomic forces at the base of regional disparities. Despite a millenary settlement his