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India's demographic challenges
India continues to fall behind not only industrialized countries but also some less industrialized countries in many demographic spheres. However, because of its changing age structure, India is bound to become an economic powerhouse in the coming years. When the working-age population in many economic rivals, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, shrinks dramatically, the country will add millions of young people to its labor force. How far India will be able to exploit this economic growth potential is a major challenge for public policy. This book is a semi-technical introduction to emerging population issues faced by India today. It identifies the most critical variables that policymakers can manipulate to improve people's social and economic well-being. It will benefit students, researchers, policymakers, and informed readers who are curious about how India's social fabric and economic destiny are intertwined with its demography.
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M20 Development of the new zealand bronchiectasis registry
IntroductionThe prevalence of bronchiectasis in New Zealand (NZ) is higher than comparable countries (180/100,000 population)1; the burden and severity of disease are incompletely understood. Bronchiectasis registries such as EMBARC (>14,000 participants) and the Australian Bronchiectasis Registry (ABR, 1360 participants) have improved understanding of bronchiectasis and identified future research priorities. The aim of the NZ Bronchiectasis Registry (NZBR) is to contribute to the understanding of bronchiectasis aetiology and management, both in NZ and internationally. It is closely aligned with ABR and supported by Lung Foundation Australia.MethodsNZBR shares data fields with ABR and EMBARC, with additional fields to reflect unique socio-demographic characteristics of NZ participants. NZBR is a multi-centre, prospective, observational study enrolling consecutive patients in NZ. Participants are identified from existing clinical and research databases, and from inpatient and outpatient encounters. Eligible adult participants have a clinical diagnosis of bronchiectasis, excluding cystic fibrosis, confirmed on CT thorax. All participants are seen face-to-face and provide written consent.Demographics, clinical information, exacerbation history (including antibiotic prescription data) and health-related quality of life assessment are collected at enrolment and annual review. Data is entered into a secure online platform, which sits alongside ABR in REDCap.ResultsNational ethical approval is in place. Enrolment began at the primary site in June 2018, shortly followed by a second site. Two additional sites have local research governance approval. To date, 117 participants have been enrolled across 2 sites: 63/117 females (53.8%); mean age 62.4 (±15.6) years. 45/117 (38.4%) of participants are of M ori or Pacific Island origin; 41/117 (35.0%) participants live in the most deprived socioeconomic quintile.ConclusionThese early steps have paved the way for a national bronchiectasis registry and are an early indicator of health inequalities for bronchiectasis in NZ. NZBR will contribute to a regional Australasian Bronchiectasis Registry to create a comprehensive longitudinal dataset across Australia and NZ, to help establish the burden of disease, promote changes in clinical practice and improve clinical outcomes. Future plans include addition of paediatric sites and increased collaboration with international registries.ReferenceTelfar Barnard L, Zhang J. Asthmaand Respiratory Foundation New Zealand; 2017.
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The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city : Paris, London, New York
\"In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition
This article presents a narrative of the unfolding of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) since the theory was first formulated in 1986. The first part recapitulates the foundations of the theory, and documents the spread of the SDT to the point that it now covers most European populations. Also for Europe, it focuses on the relationship between the SDT and the growing heterogeneity in period fertility levels. It is shown that the current positive relationship between SDT and TFR levels is not a violation of the SDT theory, but the outcome of a \"split correlation\" with different sub-narratives concerning the onset of fertility postponement and the degree of subsequent recuperation in two parts of Europe. The second part of the article addresses the issue of whether the SDT has spread or is currently spreading in industrialized Asian countries. Evidence gathered for Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan is presented. That evidence pertains to both the macro-level (national trends in postponement of marriage and parenthood, rise of cohabitation) and the micro-level (connections between individual values orientations and postponement of parenthood). Strong similarities are found with SDT patterns in Southern Europe, except for the fact that parenthood is still very rare among Asian cohabiting partners.
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Migration, reproduction and society : economic and demographic dilemmas in global capitalism
\"In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in the transformation of contemporary society. Aging and changing demographics in advanced societies make economic and social reproduction dependent upon the contributions made by immigration. However, these same demographic processes are conducive to ethnic transformations. The political dilemma facing advanced societies is that immigration is required to ensure their reproduction, but this entails becoming multicultural societies where the political hegemony of ethnic and demographic majorities becomes radically subverted. This paves the way to a pervasive political conflict already evident in the current immigration crisis in Europe just as in the revival of racism and xenophobia in the United States\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Second Demographic Transition Theory: A Review and Appraisal
References to the second demographic transition (SDT) have increased dramatically in the past two decades. The SDT predicts unilinear change toward very low fertility and a diversity of union and family types. The primary driver of these changes is a powerful, inevitable, and irreversible shift in attitudes and norms in the direction of greater individual freedom and self-actualization. First, we describe the origin of this framework and its evolution over time. Second, we review the empirical fit of the framework to major changes in demographic and family behavior in the United States, the West, and beyond. As has been the case for other unilinear, developmental theories of demographic or family change, the SDT failed to predict many contemporary patterns of change and difference. Finally, we review previous critiques and identify fundamental weaknesses of this perspective, and we provide brief comparisons to selected alternative approaches.
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Philosophers on Philosophy: The 2020 PhilPapers Survey
What are the philosophical views of professional philosophers, and how do these views change over time? The 2020 PhilPapers Survey surveyed around 2000 philosophers on 100 philosophical questions. The results provide a snapshot of the state of some central debates in philosophy, reveal correlations and demographic effects involving philosophers' views, and reveal some changes in philosophers' views over the last decade.
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Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men
\"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females \"missing\" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Economic and Social Implications of the Demographic Transition
I argue here that in many ways demographic change can and should be seen as an essential factor of change. The demographic transition will be considered as a largely autonomous process that ended up having profound social, economic, and even psychological or ideational implications for social (Demeny 1972: 154). Demography will be seen as an independent variable. It is clear, or course, that history is never unilateral, and it is undeniable that this period of enormous change had many constituent causes. I will show that demographic change was one of them and by no means an insignificant one. This chapter seeks to contribute to a more balanced interpretation of the social and economic modernization that occurred in Europe and elsewhere between 1850 and 1975. Many of the arguments will refer to the transition among the forerunners of the process, the historic demographic transition. It will also evaluate the extent to which this same process in underway in the development world and how the way these societies undergo their own transition might condition the effects these processes have for development and social change. Adapted from the source document.
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