Consequences of China's New Population Policy

1984 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 220-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wong Siu-lun
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Population Control ◽  
High Tide ◽  
New Birth ◽  
Control Campaign ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

After several ebbs and flows a new high-tide in population control has been gathering force since 1978. This new birth control campaign has three major features which separate it from earlier ones: consensus as to its desirability among the top leadership, the high priority being awarded to it, and a sense of urgency in achieving results.

Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s3) ◽  
pp. s876-s902
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Global North

An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.

U.S. BIRTHCONTROL R&D LAGS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. A102-A102
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Female Sterilization ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Contraceptive Vaccine ◽  
Regulatory Climate ◽  
New Birth ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. has fallen behind other countries in developing contraceptives, depriving Americans of birth control choices available elsewhere, a study by the Institute of Medicine reports. All but one of the major pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. have stopped significant contraceptive research, and new birth control techniques used overseas haven't been cleared for the U.S. market... There are a number of promising contraceptive developments on the horizon, some of which already are in use outside the U.S. These include a contraceptive vaccine, reversible male and female sterilization procedures, long-lasting contraceptives that can be implanted under a woman's skin, new spermicides that help reduce the risk of venereal disease, and new male contraceptives that interfere with the production of sperm. But without new spending on research and a different regulatory climate, Americans will continue to depend on 20-year-old birth control technology, said Luigi Mastroianni Jr., the committee's chairman.

Birth Control to Birth Promotion? China’s Population Policy at a Crossroads

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
Min ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Private Rights ◽  
Birth Control Policy ◽  
Policy Incentives ◽  
Direct Measures

China officially ended its one-child policy effective from 1 January 2016. Yet the effects of the relaxation of birth control policy have been limited thus far. Largely relying upon policy incentives, China’s policymakers also face pressure to take more direct measures to boost fertility rate. Whether the Chinese government is able to balance the needs of the nation and the citizens’ private rights remains a big question mark.

Birth Control in China: Local Data and Their Reliability

1981 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 119-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Secondary Peak ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Increase Rate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Control Campaign

In 1979, at about the same time that the birth control campaign received renewed impetus, China released impressive data on demographic trends. If these and other more recent data are reliable, the decline of the natural increase rate has been both belated and spectacular. Contrary to what has been assumed the birth rate would seem to have reached its peak during the 1960s (43·6 per 1,000 in 1963). After a secondary peak in the late 1960s, it then declined precipitously during the 1970s, declining by almost half (46·7 per cent) over nine years (33·59 per 1,000 in 1970; 17·9 per 1,000 in 1979). The natural increase rate was, for its part, more than halved during the same period (25·95 per 1,000 in 1970; 11·7 per 1,000 in 1979).

Birth control and population policy

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riad B. Tabbarah
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Population Policy

scholarly journals Population and population policy: French model

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-39
Author(s):  
Alain Parant
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Positive Balance ◽  
The World ◽  
Accepted Practice

Generations born today, or at least are trying to be, are scarcer than before all over the world. This decrease in the number of children is affecting modern societies in many spheres. If it was to be supported by efficient policies, it could be the source of a general improvement of life conditions. However, if this phenomenon continues or becomes drastic, it could ultimately lead to slower or faster demographic ageing, which could endanger many social heritages. Public intervention must, in that case, impinge much deeper, but without guarantees for a complete, if not permanent, success. The introductory part of the article is dedicated to the concept "demographic revolution" which was developed in 1934 by the French politician and demographer Adolphe Landry, in order to mark the development of a demographic regime which is characterized by a universally accepted practice of birth control, which represents a response for the essential concern for life standard improvement, not only for the parents but their children as well. But then, birth control is the primary cause of population ageing. The article further presents some of the most striking traits of the current French demographic situation, as its future development. France has a positive balance of population exchange with the remaining part of the world, as most of the Western European countries, but still the greatest part of its demographic increase is obtained from a larger number of births than deaths. Because of this, France is often seen as a real demographic paradise in Europe, whose population is decreasing and ageing. This image is certainly flattering, but it is becoming very contradictory after an analysis of long-term trends of fertility indicators and population ageing. The third part of the article, with the situation in France in focus, investigates the modalities and limitations of activities which a society, faced with demographic ageing and decreasing number of children, can apply: policies or simple "adjusting along the way" to demographic processes measures; policies and measures which are more intervening - even in the completely private sphere of birth-giving, and directed towards the limitation of some very unfavorable effects and not towards the change of strongly expressed tendencies of population ageing.

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