The Shaping of Fertility and Mortality Declines
Title | The Shaping of Fertility and Mortality Declines PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Matheson Douglas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Demographic transition |
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Health Transition Review
Title | Health Transition Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 1996 |
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From Death to Birth
Title | From Death to Birth PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1998-01-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309058961 |
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.
Theory of Fertility Decline
Title | Theory of Fertility Decline PDF eBook |
Author | John Charles Caldwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Medical |
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Culture And Reproduction
Title | Culture And Reproduction PDF eBook |
Author | W. Penn Handwerker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2019-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 042971212X |
This book originated in a conference on Culture and Reproduction held at the University of California. It discusses conceptual changes in demographic theory, focuses on micro-level issues, and explores linkages between micro-level processes and the macro-level constraints that shape those processes. World population growth, especially its fertility component, poses a major dilemma for policymakers throughout the world. However, theoretical developments in demography have not yet provided a solid foundation for understanding contemporary population processes. From an anthropological perspective, the current micro-level models do not properly recognize the cultural and biological constraints within which people make reproductive decisions. On the macro level, demographic transition continues to be linked to processes of "modernization." Arguing that it is necessary to readdress micro-level issues in light of the cultural-historical variability of particular places and times and to explore linkages between macro- and micro-level phenomena through which population processes work themselves out, the contributors point the way to new theoretical formulations of the concept of culture, the nature of macro/micro linkages, and methods of placing demographic theory within the more encompassing framework of evolutionary theory.
Population Politics
Title | Population Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Abernethy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351320823 |
International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite international efforts confounds demographers. 'Population Politics' brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies. Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows why policies hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Egypt are but a few of the countries Abernethy examines, showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors that have caused population growth can be harnessed to stabilize population size. 'Population Politics' is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel. Virginia D. Abernethy is professor emeritus of psychiatry (anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School and was for 11 years the editor of the scholarly journal 'Population and Environment. Garrett Hardin is emeritus professor of human ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mortality Decline and the Demographic Response
Title | Mortality Decline and the Demographic Response PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Montgomery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Children |
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