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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Population policy"”.
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Population policy and urban housing in China
… housing design reflects the new one-child family population policy in the traditional urban context in Beijing, China. The population policy has changed the size and structure of traditional family, and further affected children's growing up environment. Children, used to grow up in a joint family …
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Toward population control : philosophical and constitutional aspects of national population policy
Thesis. 1975. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Indian and American Demography, Expertise, and the Family Planning Consensus: 1930-1970
Indian population policy in the twentieth century was shaped by a blend of unique Indian concerns about population growth, legacies of British colonialism, and American foreign aid. This blend of influences resulted in the first national family planning program in the world.
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IVF Journeys of No Return: A Sociological Analysis of Reproductive Ambivalence in Contemporary China
… China. With the end of the one-child policy, the population policy in China has heralded a gradual retreat of anti-natalist policies and signalled a shift towards pro-natalism at the national level. However, at the individual level, the recent population policy does not seem to be …
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Factors affecting the distribution of primary care physicians in rural counties of Virginia: 1970-1990
… predictors of proportions of physicians to the population were identified: golf holes per capita and the ratio of hospital beds to population were the most consistent predictors. Per capita income and the elderly population were only significant for some of the years. Variables deemed to be …
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Dilemmas of China's Modernization: Population Problem and the Strategy of Sustainable Development.
… process of China's modernization centered on its population in the past half century, this paper explores the grim situation of China's population, historical factors, the relationship between population, resources and environment. Also, focused on controlling the size and improving the quality of …
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Rethinking Son Preference : Gender, Population Dynamics and Social Change in the People’s Republic of China
… officials as easily leading to criticising the population policy. It proposes that there are two main approaches to studying son preference, namely the outcome approach, which focuses on how son preference manifests itself, and the causal approach, which zooms in on different factors …
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While the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control Policy and the Makings of Chinese Modernity
… citizens. Accounting for the notorious one-child policy and its subsequent metamorphoses calls for a localized, ethnographic genealogy of China’s effort at modernization via bioscience in rural areas since the 1970s. Based on 16 months of fieldwork in and around an inter-ethnic (Manchu-Han) …
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Population growth and family planning in Iran
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology,
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The FRPS Baltic States Section British Overt Intelligence from the Baltic States during the Second World War and its effect on British Policy towards the Soviet Union, 1941-1945
… and how its work influenced British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union. Finally part three examines the content of this overt intelligence in two case studies concerning German Economic Policy and Population Policy. Britain’s wartime policy towards the Soviet Union is then described in …
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When Wombs Became Weapons: Women, Policy, and Propaganda in the Third Reich
… in order to convey certain gender-specific policy aims to women living in the Third Reich. This will be accomplished by using the novel scholarly approach (referred to as the New Intentionalist approach) that these policy aims were not only fulfilling a State-centered need, but they also …
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Racial residential segregation in the Kansas City area: a comparative study between Blacks and Hispanics
… to study developers, government, and majority population. Statistical differences are explored using dissimilarity indices and isolation indices and differences between the two ethnic groups are analyzed through Mann-Whitney U tests. The design for the statistical analysis is based on (1) …
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Adapting to Norms at the United Nations: the Abortion-Rights and Anti-Abortion Networks
… a rights-based framework for developing policy, and progress through science and reason, are embodied in the procedures and frameworks of UN global conferences. I compare the strategies and influence of the abortion-rights and anti-abortion movements over time at the UN, particularly …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… of self-medication, especially among the male population. Policy makers should also consider training personnel in drug stores on the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of malaria since self-medication is a popular health care option for many Zambians. Finally, it is recommended that the …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… of self-medication, especially among the male population. Policy makers should also consider training personnel in drug stores on the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of malaria since self-medication is a popular health care option for many Zambians. Finally, it is recommended that the …
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China-born migration to South Australia: population and labour force implications.
… was experiencing low levels of immigration and population growth compared to Australia as a whole. The study focuses on the period from 2003-2008 which not only saw a rapid increase in immigration from China to Australia but was a period in which the South Australia government initiated a …
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Caregiver strain and quality of life: exploring the moderating role of caregiver age in an I/DD context
… have increased the life expectancy for this population. Policy changes promoting residential choice have resulted in more people with I/DD living at home with aging family caregivers. Caregiving for offspring with I/DD can lead to caregiver strain, which affects the quality of life (QoL) of …
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Fertility decisions of women in the context of extreme climate events: A study in two areas hit by cyclones and floods in Bangladesh
… be incorporated into disaster risk reduction and population policy. With the increasing frequency and severity of climate-related events, policymakers must understand how extreme climate events affect fertility rates in order to provide advice for social and economic development approaches. …
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Real-time surveillance for evidence-based responses to suicide contagion and clustering
… risk of clustering in the affected area or population. Policy makers and public health officials benefit from detection of suicide clusters by means of implementing targeted evidence-based interventions in identified vulnerable populations and high-risk areas in a timely manner. To date, …
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Essays on Population and Housing Market in South Korea
… chapters evaluate the effects of a pronatalist policy introduced by local governments in South Korea, a country with one of the lowest fertility rates worldwide. In the first chapter, possible selection into marriage is highlighted considering the low out-of-wedlock births in the country. Also, …
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