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Health and Population

Foreign Affairs, 1965
The demographic interactions of health programs family planning economic development and population growth are discussed. Generally with social modernization a decline in birthrates follows a decline in mortality rates. Basic medical care alleviates immediate suffering while preventive health services contribute to long-term economic development by ...
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Promoting the health of the population

BMJ, 2014
The BMA is right to urge a prospective government to prioritise public health.1 Urgent action is needed in key areas including smoking, obesity, and mental health. However, individual topics should not be promoted in isolation.2 What we need is a long term strategic approach that also confronts the ubiquitous problem of inequalities.
Michael C, Watson, John, Lloyd
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Population ageing and health

The Lancet, 2012
www.thelancet.com Vol 379 April 7, 2012 1295 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ agenda, there are worrying signs of discrimination against older people. Background documents from the UN High-Level Meeting in September, 2010, describe the deaths of people younger than 60 or 70 years as “
Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter   +12 more
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Health and the Population

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1973
The vast technical advances achieved by man in the Western civilized world within recent centuries are briefly reviewed. It is pointed out in this context that the diagnostic procedures in the field of medicine have surpassed by far the therapeutic potentialities.
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Economic sanctions threaten population health: the case of Iran.

Public Health, 2019
OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to review evidence of the negative consequences of international economic sanctions on population health in Iran and pathways via which the sanctions affect health. STUDY DESIGN This is a narrative review.
M. Aloosh   +3 more
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Population in health planning

Social Science & Medicine, 1983
Reliable and up to date census figures are needed in Nigeria and other developing countries. In order to plan health services demographic statistics which include size mortality age sex and fertility factors are essential. Population estimation can be accomplished by the "active model" of vital registration; this should achieve a birth registration ...
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Measuring the Health of the Population

Medical Care, 1995
A set of 102 population-based indicators was developed from multiple administrative data sources; these indicators were used to compare the health status of 1 million Manitoba residents across eight administrative regions for 1 year. Marked variations in health status were shown.
M M, Cohen, L, MacWilliam
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Genomics and Population Health:

2011
Imagine being able to find out how a drug will affect you before you take it... receiving a medication that is specifically tailored to treat your disease, while minimizing your risk of developing adverse effects. Although a person’s environment, diet, and general state of health can all influence how he or she responds to medicines, another important ...
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Interactions between Health and Population

Studies in Family Planning, 1976
Both health and population have multiple direct and indirect, as well as positive and negative, influences on each other and on the development process. There is much evidence to show that high fertility produces multiple health hazards and that family planning is one of the most effective health measures available.
C E, Taylor, J S, Newman, N U, Kelly
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Health, population and development

Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics, 1980
Abstract Health status and trends in LDC's are reviewed using life expectancy as the principal measure. There are substantial regional differences in health status. East Asia and the Americas have about 20 more years of life expectancy than Tropical Africa and 10 years more than Northern Africa and Southern Asia.
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