Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 20, Issue 2, 2005

The 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 Read More

Family 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 Read More

India 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 i Read More

The 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.

The 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 recogni Read More