Author: Robert Matheson DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demographic transition
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Shaping of Fertility and Mortality Declines
Author: Robert Matheson DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demographic transition
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
From Death to Birth
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309058961
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The last 35 years or so have witnessed a dramatic shift in the demography of many developing countries. Before 1960, there were substantial improvements in life expectancy, but fertility declines were very rare. Few people used modern contraceptives, and couples had large families. Since 1960, however, fertility rates have fallen in virtually every major geographic region of the world, for almost all political, social, and economic groups. What factors are responsible for the sharp decline in fertility? What role do child survival programs or family programs play in fertility declines? Casual observation suggests that a decline in infant and child mortality is the most important cause, but there is surprisingly little hard evidence for this conclusion. The papers in this volume explore the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of the fertility-mortality relationship. It includes several detailed case studies based on contemporary data from developing countries and on historical data from Europe and the United States.
Health Transition Review
Author: The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia
Author: Takatoshi ItoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226386880
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and a rise in fiscal deficits linked to increased government spending. East Asia exemplifies these trends, and this volume offers an in-depth look at how long-term demographic transitions have taken shape there and how they have affected the economy in the region. The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia assembles a group of experts to explore such topics as comparative demographic change, population aging, the rising cost of health care, and specific policy concerns in individual countries. The volume provides an overview of economic growth in East Asia as well as more specific studies on Japan, Korea, China, and Hong Kong. Offering important insights into the causes and consequences of this transition, this book will benefit students, researchers, and policy makers focused on East Asia as well as anyone concerned with similar trends elsewhere in the world.
Fertility and Mortality Transition
Author: Rodolfo A. BulataoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780821305294
Category : Demographic transition
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Mortality Reduction, Fertility Decline, and Population Growth
Author: Davidson R. GwatkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This discussion responds to the questions of programs to reduce mortality and of how large a change in growth will result from efforts to lower fertility. It considers the influence of the policies or programs in question on mortality and on fertility, and the influence of the resulting fertility or mortality decline on the rate of change in the other. An approach of the sort required to adequately assess these policies or programs is difficult to apply, but its potential significance for policy and program analysis can be illustrated through a few qualitative and crude quantitative examples. These illustrations suggest two propositions to serve as interim guides to action and as hypotheses to be confirmed or disproven through future research. First, most programs and policies undertaken to reduce mortality will produce even larger fertility declines and thus slower growth. And, second, most measures designed to reduce fertility will also result in slower growth, but by an amount that may be significantly less than anticipated on the basis of conventional assessment techniques.
Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
Author: Mortality Decline and the Demographic Response
Author: Mark MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Fertility Decline in the Less Developed Countries
Author: Nick EberstadtPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Theory of Fertility Decline
Author: John Charles CaldwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description