Demography

The “Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education (HOPE) for Alzheimer’s Act” Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degeneration of cognitive function that affects an individual’s ability to recall, process information, and eventual disorientation, confusion, and behavior changes. It is a insidious disease because it starts slowly and depending on the type of Alzheimer’s can vary in it transitions through it stages. It the worst cases as the disease progresses, the individual loses the ability…

China might be thinking about scrapping its controversial one child policy, as the country faces a demographic challenge. China’s population is aging and labour force is declining. Could the country create a baby boom? China is facing a big demographic problem as the country now has the biggest and rapidly aging population while the working age population also continues to decline. The situation is made trickier by the fact that China’s economic growth is cooling off. In order to ease the…

Live for Now not Forever It is absolutely imaginable that I, being born in the 90s, would have a greater life expectancy at birth than grandmother had in the 20s or my mother had 50s. What is not so simply grasped is the change in expected life span within one individual’s life. According to Nation Master, the life expectancy in 1997 for a Maltese-American female was about 80 years old. When I used the calculator on the “Living to 100” website, using my current age, my expected life span was…

Healthcare decision makers rely heavily on population trend data sources such as private data collection, the U.S. census and some national probability surveys that are collected by the federal government to make decisions about how to properly allocate resources, and invest healthcare dollars for the country. Understanding changing population trends gives planners insight into future social and economic challenges as well as affords decision makers the ability to plan for the way that…

Current word count: 1243 The two powers have a thin barrier which causes people to quickly cross the threshold of balance. As one person dies, another lives, and also, it works in reverse. Yu Hua integrates this concept and develops a deep understanding of life exchanges. Even Fugui comes to understand this as “[he] realized how close [he had] come [into] being in Long Er’s shoes” (84). In order for him to live, Long Er dies because of circumstance. Since he had been close to being in “Long…

Increase of Human Population Ever since the industrial revolution occurred in the 1800’s the total human population has been increasing and still is increasing. Our human population is said to be around 7.3 billion people, scientists have predicted that in the next 10-20 years the human population will increase and reach around 10 billion people. Of course each country has a different human population there are counties with huge number of human population and others with low number of human…

In the article “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Hardin focuses on the problem of increasing population growth which he relates to a “tragedy of the commons.” His definition of the “tragedy of the commons” is when there is a resource that is shared with many people having access to it, people, who are generally self-interested and rational, will choose to maximize their profit because they will receive all of the benefit while not having to bear the full cost. Hardin gives an example with the…

When I reflect on my academic career, I realized how the pedagogical approach to problems I learned over the years as a student and Tutor has helped develop my philosophical approach to education as a collective effort where intellectual diversity and critical thinking is respected. I think in retrospect at the time I had the opportunity to teach my first class. As a new graduate in Nigeria, I was mobilized for the National Youth Service Program, a compulsory one year national service, where new…

According to statistics from WHO (2015), the average life expectancy at birth of the global population increases from 64 years to 71.4 years in the period between 1990 and 2015. In spite of an increase of the average life expectancy, there is health inequality appearing in everywhere; in other words, part of population is vulnerable to variety of mental and physical ailments, due to several factors such as genetics, environment, lifestyle, socio-economic, health care and so on. Among a great…

It took more than 1800 years for the world’s population to reach one billion, however the world’s population increased rapidly after the industrial revolution in Britain which started in the 18th century. The Industrial Revolution was one of the major contributors to the human population explosion as there were many new discoveries and inventions made in science and technology .The improvement of medical technology meant that some diseases which took the lives of many could be cured or be better…