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Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
J. Dowd   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Demographic forecasting of population aging in Greece and Cyprus: one big challenge for the Mediterranean health and social system long-term sustainability

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background With an increasing aging population and a lower ratio between the active and the dependent population, population aging is considered a global social and health challenge, associated with increased demand in health care needs and social ...
D. Lamnisos   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Support Networks and Quality of Life of Rural Men in a Context of Marriage Squeeze in China

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Men's Health, 2018
A significant number of rural Chinese men are facing difficulties in finding a spouse and may fail to ever marry due to a relative scarcity of women in the adult population.
Sasa Wang, Xueyan Yang, Isabelle Attané
doaj   +1 more source

The transition from extensive to intensive demographic policy

open access: yesEconomic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 2016
The article analyzes the “window of opportunities” to overcome the demographic crisis through the actualization of intensive approach to the implementation of demographic policy.
Vyacheslav Veniaminovich Lokosov
doaj   +1 more source

Sovereignty of Russia: national interests, demographic threats and challenges

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Economics, 2018
The article examines the main geopolitical factors that determine the place of the state in the community of nations: the size of its territory, the density of the population, the rationality of its productive force’s location.
V I Zhukov
doaj   +1 more source

Using Cohort Fertility Indicators to Assess and Predict the Effectiveness of Demographic Policies [PDF]

open access: yesЭкономика региона, 2015
The analysis of fertility indicators for cohort gives an adequate assessment of the effectiveness of demographic policy and measurement of perspective fertility rates for demographic forecasts, eliminating the impact of the shifts in birth timing in ...
Vladimir Nikolayevich Arkhangelsky   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A cluster analysis of Croatian counties as the base for an active demographic policy

open access: yes, 2017
This paper deals with Croatian counties cluster analysis as the base for develop-ping a proactive demographic policy. Unfortunately, Croatia has no national demographic strategy and no national population policy is carried out. Some local governments are
E. Jurun, N. Ratković, I. Ujević
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transformation of the Domestic Economy in 1990–1995 in Altai Region

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2018
: In 1990–1995, Russia experienced a transition period from totalitarianism to democratic social and political system, formed a civil society based on the freedom of the people and the recognition of the priority of human rights by the state.
A. N. Radonova
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Pronatalist Demographic Policy in the Eyes of the Population: Ten Years Later

open access: yes, 2017
Pronatalist demographic policy in Russia has started in 2007 and now, 10 years after, there is an acute discussion about its further development. The aim of this article is the analysis of the attitude to the pronatalist policy in Russia in general and ...
T. Maleva   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nurses and midwives demographic shift in Ghana—the policy implications of a looming crisis

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2019
As part of measures to address severe shortage of nurses and midwives, Ghana embarked on massive scale-up of the production of nurses and midwives which has yielded remarkable improvements in nurse staffing levels.
J. Asamani   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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