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World population prospects and unmet need for family planning.
Scott Moreland,Smith E,Sharma S +2 more
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In this article, the authors show that meeting women's stated desires to limit or space births would have a major impact on world population growth, and that if countries were able to meet all unmet need for family planning the pace of population growth would decline below the United Nations medium projection moving closer to the UN low projection.Abstract:
This report shows that meeting womens stated desires to limit or space births would have a major impact on world population growth. If countries were able to meet all unmet need for family planning the pace of population growth would decline below the United Nations medium projection moving closer to the UN low projection. By 2050 the population of the 99 developing countries (excluding China) and the US that were included in the study would be 6.3 billion if all unmet need for family planning were met compared with the UN medium projection of 6.7 billion. The estimated cumulative cost of meeting unmet need for family planning in developing countries up to 2050 is US$638 billion -- about midway between the costs of reaching the UN medium and low projections.read more
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Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing In Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health
TL;DR: The direct health benefits of meeting the need for both family planning and maternal and newborn health services would be dramatic and more women would survive hemorrhage and infection and fewer would endure needless suffering from fistula infertility and other health problems related to pregnancy or childbirth.
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Determinants of low family planning use and high unmet need in Butajira District, South Central Ethiopia
TL;DR: The local government should focus on increasing educational level and ensure family planning methods security, increase competence of providers, and create awareness on various methods and their side effects to empower women to make an appropriate choice.
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Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions
Brian C. O'Neill,Brantley Liddle,Leiwen Jiang,Kirk R. Smith,Shonali Pachauri,Michael Dalton,Regina Fuchs +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review two types of evidence for how CO 2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels are affected by demographic factors such as population growth or decline, ageing, urbanization, and changes in household size.
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Determinants of Unmet Need for Modern Contraception and Reasons for Non-use among Married Women in Rural Areas of Burkina Faso
TL;DR: The multivariate analysis reveals that being married more than once increases the likelihood of UNMC and Husbands’ approval and health education on benefits of FP are important factors to consider in strategies aimed at reducing UNMC in Burkina-Faso.
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Climate ethics and population policy
TL;DR: A review of the scientific literature regarding voluntary population control's potential contribution to climate change mitigation can be found in this paper, where the authors explore some of the ethical issues at stake, considering arguments for and against noncoercive population control and asking whether coercive population policies are ever morally justified.
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