Population health

The fertility change in Brazil started in the late 1960’s due to several institutional developments. The medical institution is one of the factors for the sudden tremendous rise of the fertility rate. Their expansion of medical coverage and the consequent medicalization of sexual and reproductive behavior increased the demand of birth regulation. Social security institution developed the growth of publicly provided social security services. The most important factor is the mass media institution…

Immigration is an important issue to talk about. As we know the United States is a nation of immigrants. The United States is full of people from different countries, cultures, and languages. Many immigrant people come in search of a better life for their families. Some of these families seek opportunities such as better education for their children, better jobs, and sometimes the reunification with a family member. Throughout time, we have seen that social media focus more on questioning the…

Property Rights One of the largest objections against lessening immigration restrictions has to do with property rights. Those against immigration many times compare countries to households, with citizens being members of the household, and immigrants as a housemate who is not paying the monthly rent3. They will argue that if US natives would not let someone into their home and use their private property, then, there is no reason to let them into the country. It is the idea that the people and…

When dealing with small town police departments, many issues tend to arise when comparing the problems faced in a small town to an urban environment (Johnson, 2000). Some factors that small-town areas face include budget constraints, response time difficulties, and community relations (Gordner, 2006). These issues greatly affect rural areas due to a high poverty rates, low unemployment, and detrimental funding issues (Gordner, 2006). These problems cause small-town police departments to have…

France’s population patterns and birth rates diverged significantly from those that could be observed in Britain and the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. In what way did they diverge? What were some of the reasons for this divergence as well as the consequences in terms of French political, social, cultural and economic life during the course of the nineteenth century? Ancien Regime France was the financial, demographic and cultural hub of Europe. A large unified landmass, a vast…

too. This led to increased economic growth. There was a shift in exports to emerging markets and because there was global growth there was great export growth. During the 1990s, import demand began to decline in high-income countries. Diminished population growth in high-income markets also began to take place, which slowed the growth in consumption and demand ultimately hurting the United States export growth, and agricultural exports greatly declined. During this time issues such as trade…

1. Introduction: China’s population facts China is the most heavily populated country in the world, which has over 1.33 billion population. The one-child policy had been launched in China for 25 years, which has determined as the most extreme social experiment in population growth control under government intervention in human reproduction in world history (Wang, 2005). The one-child policy had been working on restricting on family size, late marriage, and childbearing. However, the policy was…

When anyone hears the topic of immigration in our present lives we almost immediately know that an argument is going to break out because of something relating to it. This topic is argued over every single week if not day within the media, the government and between people. The government spends billions upon billions trying to create a border and get rid of the “illegals” and spread this mantra of how bad they are to our country and how everything will be ruined. The thing is I think we spend…

countries (O 'Flaherty, 25). The article on Migration and Foreign Aid explores the subject further and makes the conclusion that there is a close association between the two. It emerges that there is a direct relationship between the size of immigrants’ population in a foreign country and the corresponding contribution of the host country towards development. The donor countries give foreign aid to the developing countries which are the source of the most of the migrants with the hope that if…

In “The Metropolis and Mental Life” Gorg Simmel describes the difference between urban and rural areas. People were moving from rural areas to larger cities for jobs. Simmel believes the vast number of people in the cities as well as the stimulus in the environment caused people in the city to be less personal than those in rural areas. In some ways, this is true since people in larger cities seem to be more concerned about themselves then with their neighbors. I live in a small rural community…