Population, reproductive health, and environmental sustainability are inextricably linked.
Growing populations place increasing demands on the environment, while meeting the reproductive health needs of populations usually slows their growth..
Medical demography, the study of chronic disease, disability, and mortality in mature and aging populations, has roots in actuarial and biometric models of mortality and insurance of health-contingent events (Spiegelman, 1968)..
In demography, fertility indicates the product or output of reproduction, rather than the ability to have children.
The physiological ability to have children—that is manifest roughly in the period between menarche and menopause in women—is termed fecundity..
From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic is a book by Mohan Rao.
It is a critique of the post-1990s Indian family planning system.
In it, Rao endeavors to critique the family-planning programme in India, its assumptions, unstated bias, and implications..
It extends through family and community groups and is concerned with the relation of population to the environment and sustainable development.
Reproductive health is about people and their relationships, their values, their ethics, and their hopes for the future.Feb 9, 1998.
Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes..
Demography is useful for governments and private businesses as a means of analyzing and predicting social, cultural, and economic trends related to population..
The Article notes “A very real danger exists that, in the face of declining population, some states might consider adopting policies that restrict female reproductive health rights and access to services
”Good sexual and reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system
It implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life, the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so
Sexual and reproductive ill health accounts for one third of the global burden of disease amongst women of reproductive age in the developing world; it is a leading cause of death for women
This has high economic and social costs
Each year, millions of children are left without their mothers
