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Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 20, Issue 2, 2005
Volume 20, Issue 2, 2005
Issued three times a year, the Asia-Pacific Population Journal is an invaluable resource containing opinions and analysis by experts on important issues related to population. It provides a medium for the international exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, technical information and data on all aspects of population.
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Why is funding for population activities declining?
Author: Steven W. SindingThe sexual and reproductive health community heralded the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in 1994 at Cairo as a new dawn in reproductive rights. ICPD saw a seismic shift in the way we look at reproductive health, away from the narrow confines of family planning and demographic targets to the broader areas of women’s empowerment and young people’s reproductive health needs. Most importantly, ICPD strengthened the concepts of “rights” and “choice” as the backbone of reproductive health. But many of the declarations hailed at the time remain just that – declarations. Many of the positive changes mooted at the Conference have not been implemented. No doubt this is partly owing to a lack of political resolve – particularly around sensitive issues of young people’s sexual rights and abortion – but also, crucially, a lack of financial will.
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Family transition in South Asia: Provision of social services and social protection
Author: W. Indralal De SilvaFamily may be defined as a group of persons related to a specific degree, through blood, adoption or marriage. The difficulty is that comparative data on the family in the broad definition of the term are not available. The available statistics relate to households, defined by location, community or living arrangements. Surveys and censuses usually cover all households, not merely family households. Nevertheless, the latter type constitutes a major proportion enabling the characteristics of the totals to be identified as those of family households. For many demographic, socio-economic and political reasons, family members may disperse and consequently, the size of the household could be reduced although the size of the family would remain unchanged. In Asian countries, most young people live with their parents after marriage and later move to another place whenever custom imposes or the economic condition of the new couple permits. Lloyd and Duffy (1995) believe that, beyond this natural ebb and flow of family members, families are becoming more dispersed. Young and elderly adults, spouses and other relatives who might otherwise have shared a home are now more likely to live apart from one another. In 2004, the United Nations observed the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family. Thus, it appears timely to review some of the trends, such as fertility, marriage dissolution, migration, urbanization and ageing, that affect the family in the region.
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Ageing, activities of daily living disabilities and the need for public health initiatives: Some evidence from a household survey in Delhi
Authors: Moneer Alam and M. MukherjeeIndia is fast becoming a graying society as a result of its upcoming prospect to achieve an accelerating growth in the size of its ageing population. Two causal factors are: (a) a varying but persistent fertility-mortality decline across the country, and (b) added lifespan with increased survival chances, especially at the later end of the life cycle. Those changes, and in particular the added life years, have, however, been mired in the high prevalence of chronic diseases, affecting over half of the country’s population aged 60 and over (NSS 52nd round, 1995-1996). Such a situation - coupled with large-scale poverty and the poor financial status of the older persons (Alam, 2004) - is likely to pose many serious issues for the country. One of the more critical may indeed be the higher incidence of frailty, senescence, functional incapacitation and dependence of older men and women in activities of daily living (ADL) – raising questions for the caregivers, especially the families. With large-scale migration, declining family size and growing participation of women in economic activities, this traditional support mechanism is apparently on the verge of losing its sheen. Somewhat inexplicably, this aspect has been almost completely missed in the analytical literature on health and ageing in India. The analysis presented below is therefore a modest attempt to fill some of this void by looking into the following.
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The New Zealand health care and disability system
Author: Durga S. RauniyarThe purpose of this paper is to give a general overview of the New Zealand health and disability system. It provides a brief description of the demographics of the population and the health and disability status of New Zealanders by focusing on some important health outcome measures. It addresses some emerging issues and the Government’s initiatives to promote the health and well-being of all New Zealanders.
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Changes in age-sex mortality patterns and causes of death in the Republic of Korea
Author: Tai-Hun KimThe high population growth in many developing countries is caused by relatively low mortality and continuing high fertility. Under those circumstances, it is difficult to deny that reducing fertility is crucial for curbing rapid population growth. Nonetheless, because the health status of a population has an obvious bearing on mortality, its importance as a variable affecting the quality of the population has also been recognized (United Nations, 1973, p. 107). Therefore, while fertility reduction is an important factor for curbing population growth rates, mortality (or health) control is required for improving the quality of the population.
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