Population health

In general short-term migration seems to be most prevalent among the socioeconomic marginalised groups; the poorest of the poor, illiterates, Scheduled Tribes and Castes, where they migrate from the rural area to urban areas. The micro survey of the Migration Policy Institute suggests that most internal migrants are between the age of 16 and 40 whose duration of stay is between 60 days and a year. Here the marginalised, scheduled tribes and castes are overrepresented in the short-term migration…

Nowadays, about half of the nation’s population in the world lives in urban areas. Even now, more and more people are moving into the cities for urban life. According to the Census Bureau data, in 2013, there are 2.3 million more people living in urban areas than in 2012. Now 269.9 million people live in urban cities and their surrounding areas. During 2012 and 2013, just 92 out of the country 's 381 metropolitan areas lost their population.…

cities with good development. This movement of people could lead to several communicable diseases especially in areas of large population. In this assignment, I am discussing the impacts of urbanization on communicable diseases. Urbanization can facilitate the spread of diseases such flu, cholera, malaria and many other diseases. It is important for environmental health practitioners to study urbanization and know how to prevent these diseases in future. Key words: urbanization and communicable…

“Everything is happening at once and everything is happening to everybody” is a quote from the World Service Authority’s article “World Citizenship Defined” (Lechner & Boli 492). This quote means to say that what happens in the world affects everyone in one way or another. In a sort of butterfly effect phenomenon, the civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic and the ensuing flight of several million Syrians across Europe has affected the economies of several countries, albeit in different ways and…

in the Mediterranean, reliving their trauma while applying for citizenship, or leaving their loved ones behind, almost every experience of migration is unimaginably difficult. Refugees and other immigrants though have become a highly scrutinized population in recent years because Europe and the Untied States have created the idea of a refugee crisis. The issue at hand though, is that the large number of refugees has prompted host countries to minimize, trivialize, and ignore the lives and…

classification rather than a more complex, self-identified method of classification for their “participants,” like that of Kazyak and Gray and Annes & Redlin. While other researchers expressed concerns over missing a potential non-queer-identifying population, Wienke & Hill were conscientious of conflating sexual behavior with sexual identity. The authors also had no way of collecting information about their subjects’ past feelings of well-being, which were crucial to the other studies’ analysis…

1.The definitions or immigration, emigration and refugees Immigration can be defined as movement of people from the country of their origin, in which they possess citizenship to another country with the goal to stay there in order to work, educate themselves or simply be domiciled there on a permanent basis. Those who do so are referred to as immigrants by the country which they enter. 
Emigration is the act of moving abroad and leaving one’s native country to settle somewhere outside the…

the roads are dirty and whereby there are a lot of cars that also contribute to air pollution since they release many harmful gases into the air. Most people do not want to lead this kind of life. Their health is in more risk due to all sorts of factors that may contribute to a decline in their health due to the city life. (Waugh, 1998). Moreover, in cities, people may spend hours stuck in traffic on a daily basis. Statistics say that US motorists spend about a week a year per driver in traffic…

they lost, it still hasn’t stopped El Paso from being one of the safest places in the country even with their low income border and high level of immigration, which is more than three quarters of it is filled up with illegal immigrants. The Men’s Health magazine ranked El Paso as one of the “happiest” city in America, what was really surprising…

immigrants are only for the good of this foreign country. There is a study that George Borjas made which is a family of economic models about immigrants surplus and what is the impact that it implies on a foreign country. George Borjas indicates that population growth via immigration increases the demand for goods, which can, in the long run, lead to more hiring and higher wages. This can come at the cost f people who are…