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Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders:A Review of the Evidence
Adult Mortality Asian Americans Pacific Islanders
2016/3/18
Mortality estimates have consistently pointed to a sizable health advantage for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders compared to white Americans, but a question remains as to whether mortality estima...
Population mobility in the Pacific region in the 21st century: trends and prospects
Population mobility Pacific region
2015/6/24
“Australia’s population in a global world”, the theme for
this conference, will always need to have a special
place for those living in neighbouring countries.
Application of the modified PGW method for determining the smoking attributable fraction of deaths in New Zealand Maori, Pacific and non-Maori non-Pacific populations
cannabis smoking lung cancer Peto-Lopez method PGW method smoking-related mortality tobacco use
2014/11/24
Background: Preston, Glei and Wilmoth recently proposed a new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high income countries and an improvement to the method was proposed by Rostron. Th...
A Review of Health and Nutrition Issues in the Pacific
Health and Nutrition economic development high mortality rates short life expectancy
2009/4/24
The economic development of the South Pacific is being hampered by poor health which is reflected in the relatively high mortality rates and short life expectancy found in the subregion. The article ...
An Overview of South Pacific Population Problems
South Pacific Population Problems Population growth rates Pacific subregion
2009/4/24
Population growth rates vary more widely in the Pacific subregion than elsewhere in the ESCAP region, and because Melanesian countries account for about 84 per cent of the total population of the subr...
Breast-feeding, Infant Health and Child Survival in the Asia-Pacific Context
Breast-feeding Infant Health Child Survival Asia-Pacific
2009/4/22
This article considers the role of breast-feeding in infant health and child survival, with a special reference to the available information from countries in the Asian and Pacific region. A simplifie...
Language, Videos and Family Planning in the South Pacific
Family Planning the South Pacific
2009/4/15
This article looks at the importance of language in family planning activities in the South Pacific, particularly at the use of language in videos and in the development of a lexicon of reproductive h...
Fertility Patterns of Adolescent and Older Women in Pacific Island Countries: Programme Implications
International Conference on Population and Development age-specific fertility rate sexually transmitted diseases
2009/4/3
This study investigates whether adolescent birth rates are high and rising in the Pacific island countries, as is widely believed. Using census data, it finds that, with few exceptions, adolescent fer...
Population Policies and Programmes in the Post-ICPD Era：Can the Pacific Island Countries Meet the Challenge?
Population Policies Post-ICPD Era
2009/4/3
This article assesses the current population and development situation in the Pacific island countries, discusses the significance of population variables in the search for sustainable development, an...
Untangling the Myths and Realities of Fertility and Mortality in the Pacific Islands
Fertility Mortality Pacific Islands
2009/4/3
Lack of information, or erroneous information and, in some cases, misinterpretation of information have given rise to a series of myths concerning the island populations of the Pacific, such as the So...
Population and Poverty：Some Perspectives on Asia and the Pacific
Population Poverty Perspectives
2009/4/1
The international community has committed itself to an ambitious programme of social development for the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Attacking poverty directly as a matter of human ri...
Half a Century of Unparalleled Demographic Change：the Asia-Pacific Experience
Demographic Change Asia-Pacific Experience
2009/4/1
The past 50 years have witnessed unparalleled demographic changes occurring in the Asian and Pacific region. The paper highlights these crucial changes and discusses their underlying determinants.
It...
Reducing poverty, HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality and ensuring environmental sustainability are key millennium development goals. However, these goals will not be achieved by 2015 unless the highest p...
The Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference：Towards a Repositioning of Population in the Global Development Agenda?
Population Conference Global Development Agenda Repositioning of Population
2009/3/31
Since the Bali Conference 10 years earlier, by the time of the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference at Bangkok in December 2002, the Asian and Pacific region had become more diverse demograph...
Evolution of Population Concerns：Reflections from the Asian and Pacific Population Conferences
Population Concerns Evolution Asian and Pacific Population Conferences
2009/3/31
purposes, themes, organization, agenda items and debates of the five decennial Asian and Pacific Population Conferences are described by the author, who participated in all five Conferences. The techn...