...Global Population Growth Accordance to the United Nations demographers, global population already passed 6.9 billion in mid-2010. Also, population life expectancy is consistently rising decline (Engelman, 2010). Many industrial countries are now experiencing either slow population growth or completely. However, a lot of developing countries still continue to grow rapidly their populations to have large proportions of young people for working. Thus, 95 percents of population growth is appears in the developing nations today. Population growth has resulted in overpopulation on a national and world's level. It may limit future economic growth in high-fertility nations while population aging may do so in low-fertility ones. The population growth accelerates continuously increased demand for food, water, shelter, energy, health care, commodities, and careers. The most rapid rates of population increase often in countries where basic necessities are already scarce and that are least economically productivities and least ability to afford imports. Meanwhile, in many industrial and some rapidly developing nations, labor supplies are start to decline proportionally and sometimes completely decline. Many industrial and some developing nations have higher proportions of elderly unprecedented in demographic history, such as Japan which is 23 percents of current 127 million population being older than 64. Even if the life expectancies are expanding, there is no guarantee this phenomenon...
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...Mashell Chapeyama Zimbabwe There is clear trend in population growth over the past two centuries. This has been a period of fast growth in the population. The one billion population point was reached only in 1800. It means before that period the population was very low. That could be explained by high death rates. However, from 1800 to about 1900 the population grew to 3 billion people. That is a big jump. This can be explained by better life expectancy, enhanced by good health care and the effects of industrialization. The population however kept increasing. This year 2012, the population has reached 8 billion. This newer growth rate was made possible by the decline in death rate, and increased life expectancy. This is still despite the low birth rates that has been necessitated by family planning measures. It is expected that within the next 12 years the population would reach the 9 billion mark. From there, the population is expected to stabilize. Firstly, family planning has managed to reduce the birth rates; however it triggered a longer life expectancy. This means there has been a huge decrease in death rate. When people have few children, they can meet their health needs better than if the families were big. With medical care afforded to people, it means people live long periods of time. Many generations of people live at one time. With fewer children, the parents can invest their money in medical aids; they can afford good education for their children. The parents...
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...Does global warming explain the relationship between the growing U.S. population and the rising average temperature in the U.S.? Purpose Statement The purpose of this study is to test the theory of global warming that relates the U.S. population growth to the average temperature increase in the U.S. The independent variable will be the rapidly growing U.S. population. The dependent variable will be the average climate increase in the U.S. The populations will be broken down into each individual state. Average temperature will be broken down into each individual state to get a clearer picture, since each state can have varying results with their relationships between population and temperature. This research project hopes to explain the growing U.S. population as the primary cause of the rising average temperature in the U.S. through the theories of global warming. Statement of the Problem or Research Question(s) Does global warming explain the relationship between the growing U.S. Population and the rising average temperature in the U.S.? The rising average temperature in the U.S. is becoming problematic. Global warming is taking its effect on this developed country. Letting global warming continue to run rampant without mitigation can be disastrous for the U.S. So questions need to be asked about what the main factors are, that are contributing to global warming in the U.S. Is there a direct correlation between the growing U.S. population and...
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...China and Localization: Top 3 Considerations for Global Brands Gavin Grimes is Senior Director, China, at Welocalize. He is based at Welocalize’s offices in Beijing. Having lived and worked in China for five years, he shares some insights on what global brands must consider when conducting business with China. The population of China is over 1.35 billion. Since September 2013, it is officially and comfortably the largest country in the world (worldpopulationreview.com) and it has the largest share of the total online population. Around one-fifth of the world’s population, over 1 billion speakers, report some form of Chinese as their first language. In a report by independent research firm, Common Sense Advisory, “Business Globalization in 2020”, December 2007, it states that, in terms of biggest countries by GDP, “economists predict that by 2020, China will have moved up to second place behind the US.” Global brands and companies looking to tap into this giant economy have to take their translation and localization strategy seriously. We have all seen and heard funny stories about how brands have got the messaging wrong when advertising and marketing to China. YouTube is full of bad translation examples. Brand preservation is key for global companies, so localizing your brand is no laughing matter if you’re serious about expanding your reach into China. Global brands must consider the following when developing their localization strategy to tap into the Chinese market: China’s...
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...Demographic shifts transform the global workforce “Never before has demographic change happened so quickly. Global employers face the challenge that, despite a growing global population, they will soon have to recruit from a shrinking workforce due to an aging population”. Despite a growing global population, the availability of skilled workers is actually shrinking. Studies show this is only the beginning of problems. The labor market shrinks and the struggle for talent workers becomes increasingly fierce. Although the global population increases is observed a significant reduction in labor force. The large economies such as Russia, Canada, South Korea and China will also face this problem having more people to retirement age than are entering the workforce. State such as Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia will have a version a young working force. The question appears only if they will be able to provide them indispensable education and opportunities to develop their skills. Demand for highly skilled employers is growing rapidly. An estimated 31% workers in the world has a problem with fulfilling its obligations due to lack of necessary skills; “today, 65% of global companies, and more than 80% of companies in fast-growing economies have trouble finding employees with the skills”. The reasons for this phenomenon detects increase of level of skills needed in the dynamically developing global economy, and the failure of education systems to produce the relevant base of talent...
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...Analysis James Baptiste Walden University NURS 3001 Section 3, Issues and Trends in Nursing Prof. Sonya Blevins December 9, 2012 According to international journal of nursing the shortage is a global challenge, affecting every country in the world. However each country experiences it according to its own domestic issues. The purpose of this paper is to analyze three countries nursing population United States, Philippines and South Africa where nursing shortage has affected their health care quality. This article investigates the impact of the nursing shortage in three different countries United States with a rapid aging of its population which has an effect on the health care system, Philippines with the policy of exporting a massive of nurses oversees by the government which in return creates a vacuum in the country for skilled nurses, and South Africa where poor working condition, low wage and social unrest distress the health care system. By using literature as research tools to be able to describe what nursing shortage means for those countries and strategies that they use to address the situation. In United States the nursing shortage is more relate to an aging population. The professional issues in nursing (2009) state that between now and 2015, the population aged 85 years and older will increase by 40%. Therefore not only more nurses will be needed but also due to increase in technology the 21st century patients have shifted from acute illness to chronic illness...
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...Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS), founded in 2006, is a pioneer provider of Homeland Security solutions. AIS is proudly presented as the leading National Company in its field, bringing the most intelligent and unique security solutions. AIS takes a holistic approach to security, integrating physical security technologies such as sensors with information technologies such as databases, software, and artificial intelligence, while incorporating its operational expertise throughout. AIS offers its clients tailored solutions that provide full spectrum security that proactively predicts, prevents, prepares for, and manages events, ensuring the safety and security of the nation. Global trends will be a major consideration when forming our strategic HRM policies for the next 10-15 years. The NIC’s treatment of demography identifies four trends that its authors argue will substantially influence the future of international relations – to 2030 and beyond: * Aging, which they call “a tectonic shift” for developed countries but also increasingly many developing; * Youthful Societies and States, which they note is a shrinking but still-significant number; * Migration, which is expected to be more cross-border and increasingly common; and * Urbanization, which is a continued trend that will accelerate and take center stage as its side-effects impact Africa and parts of Asia. * Changing Age Structures By 2030, nearly all of Europe, South Korea, Japan, and...
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...so corporates have started tapping rural markets, since more than 60 per cent of India’s population lives in rural areas. During this global meltdown and fall of exports, if the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector has been able to show rising quarterly growths, it is because of the Rural Markets and their rising spending power, which have not been affected by this meltdown. If we look at the strategies followed by Rural Marketers in the FMCG sector, it is to sell many small sachets of Rs. 2 shampoo pouches, Rs. 5 Maggi packs and the Rs. 5 chota Pepsi, because here, the strength lies in volume sale, considering the large consumer base in these rural markets which won’t spend altogether at once on buying large family packs of 500ml shampoo or super saver packs of Maggi or a Pepsi pet bottle of 2 litres. Therefore, consumption trends followed by the rural Indian are considered to be the driver of future growth of companies. And this trend of tapping rural markets is visible across all sectors now, be it FMCG, IT, Banking, education etc. For example, today, India is in better state than China because our GDP is less dependent on exports as compared to them, where maximum revenues come from exporting to the European and US markets. Thus, tapping the rural markets is most important for us to be a self sustaining economy. India has been considerably shielded from the global recession. Firstly, we are not very dependent on the exports for...
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...Distribution of world population and location of mega-cities In 1800 only 3 percent of the worlds total population lived in cities, this figure now stands at 47 percent an increase of 44 percent over 200 years. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations exceeding one million; New York was recognised as becoming the world’s first megacity. By the year 2007 83 millionaire cities had risen to 468. If this trend continues however the worlds urban population will double every 38 years. This is due to the propelled high rates of natural increase and very high rates of rural to urban migration. A few of the largest cities have grown to merge with others to form city regions, or agglomerations, such as Tokyo whose region now includes the population of Yokohama. The term megacity is now used to describe these city regions. A few current megacities according to that of the world gazetteer are that of Cairo in Egypt with a population of 16,794,464, Beijing in China with a population of 13,294,474 and Buenos Aires in Argentina with a population of 14,723,625. A few countries that have the potential to become megacities within the next 5 years are that of Chicago in the USA with a population of 9,506,302, and Xianggang in China with a current population of 9,565,291. This image shows the urban population (millions). As the image clearly show there are around 6 mega-city areas in the western hemisphere. The more obvious one being that of the world cities such as New York....
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...China – “The Middle Kingdom” China in Mandarin Chinese in called Zhangguo, this really means “Middle Kingdom” when it is translated into English. The term Zhanggou originated from the Zhou dynasty’s belief that China was the center of civilizations in there part of the world, in which they truly were. They were not aware that in the western hemisphere of the world there were civilizations as well. It was not until the 1900’s that they firmly believed that they were the center of the world and what was surrounding them were savages. The term middle kingdom that China had adopted was surrounded by a firm belief. One of the biggest ones was on how they worked together and contributed much to their modern attitude towards the global economy. Most believe that China was slow to industrialize. That it could have done so a lot faster. Eventually all of those developed nations shifted from working on agriculture to skilled manufacturers who worked in facilities. The only thing that seemed to hold China back was the fact that there policies favored agriculture. Working with their hands doing manual labor on the land had always been good to them. Many great historians give credit to the different belief systems that both China and Europe, their late arrival into industrialization against that of Britain and other European countries. The part of Chinas main beliefs that held true even to this day is that of family. Traditionally you find more families in...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss the global children health needs analysis health analysis of global children population. … Select one specific global population- child profile their health issues (at least five). Key words: Global population, Health, Children. Background Human beings are the only species whose offspring are born in a vulnerable state. Children are not able to walk, talk, feed or defend themselves. They are completely dependent on others for many years until they start learning to be independent and are able to defend themselves. Children are also completely governed by the culture, economy and social status of adults from the moment they are born. Children are considered the poorest human beings because they are unable to or it is difficult for them to thrive on their own. Global population- children profile their health issues Around the world children are facing different health issues. Beginning from the moment they are conceived. Children are exposed to different preventable and infectious illnesses and conditions beginning when they are in the womb. Some children are not fortunate enough to survive labor because of their mothers’ compromised health. If children are privileged to survive birth, they do not have access to basic things such as food or clean water. Some children around the world starve to death. Many children around the world do not have access to basic prevented health care such as medicine and vaccines, consequentially...
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... MBA, BRAC University Subject Name: Business Environment Subject Code: BUS503 Date of Submission: 8-12-15 Review and Discussion Questions 1. What is meant by an “ageing population”? Examine some of the key ways in which an ageing population can affect the supply side of the economy? Answer: Population ageing is a phenomenon that occurs when the median age of a country or region rises due to rising life expectancy and/or declining fertility rates. Aging of population (also known as demographic aging, and population aging) is a summary term for shifts in the age distribution (i.e., age structure) of a population toward older ages. A direct consequence of the ongoing global fertility transition (decline) and of mortality decline at older ages, population aging is expected to be among the most prominent global demographic trends of the 21st century. Population aging is progressing rapidly in many industrialized countries, but those developing countries whose fertility declines began relatively early also are experiencing rapid increases in their proportion of elderly people. This pattern is expected to continue over the next few decades, eventually affecting the entire world. Population aging has many important socio-economic and health consequences, including the increase in the old-age dependency ratio. It presents challenges for public health (concerns over...
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...Week 3 Demographic Paper Synthia Simmons October 14, 2013 The Aging Population Demographic means the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human population. Demographic factors consist of age, sex, education level, income level and other things. The topic I would like to discuss is about the aging population and how it affects the challenges which are related to health care. Dramatic changes are taking place in this demographic structure of the United States. By the year 2030, twenty-two (22) percent of the population will be over the age of sixty-five (65). The aging of the population presents social challenges to support the needs of older people. These social challenges help the aging to live healthier, to be independent and to lead a productive life. There are older adults that are much more healthier plus they are more educated plus they are pursuing active lives. Whenever the older adults develop a disability or chronic illness, the older adults are unable to perform one or more self-care tasks. Whenever it comes to the health care relation of aging population, information technologies can improve the lives of older adults in certain areas. These areas include e-health, medication, health care deliveries, home safety and assist devices. The aging pulation comes with many challenges such as social, financial, economic and political. Managing health...
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...Demographic Paper HCS /490 Demographic Paper This paper will expound upon the demographics of the aging population, data that is gathered of the said population and describe the general impact that the changing demographics may have on the health care market. Why and how will the changes in the aging population affect healthcare. In addition, identify two key health care related challenges for the aging population such as increase in health care costs, increases in prescription drugs costs, or the need for in home medical care. How a chronic disease wellness program may affect the cost of the aging population. What can the demographics tell you about the marketing needs of services needed for the aging population, finally how can a patient; the community and society as a whole address the challenges of the aging population. After gathering data about the aging population, it is understandable that it is similar to the statistics of the human population such as birth, deaths, infant mortality, and life expectancy rates. According to Kotler, Shalowitz, & Stevens (2008), people seek health care services for a number of reasons, such as illnesses, accidents, preventions and incurring injuries in one form or another. In addition, most people seek health care services because of the influence of merchants, mainly pharmaceutical companies that encourage patients to seek care for a diversity of known diseases and symptoms. This encouragement may come from public service announcements...
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...Demographic Paper/Aging Population Aging Population The purpose of this summary is to provide information on the effects of changes in population demographics on the needs and services of the aging population. This summary will include the impact the aging population will have on the health care market as well as some ways in which the aging population affect health care in relation to cost. The summary hopes to provide some insight to the need for more health care professionals to care for the aging population. He summary will provide an answer to the question, what is the aging population’s effect on a chronic disease wellness program. The summary will conclude with the aging population’s effects on an individual, community, national, and global level. Aging Population in the United States According to Maestas and Zissimopoulos, “population aging is not a looming crisis of the future, it is already here” (Page 1, Para 1, 2011).When life expectancy rises and fertility declines the results are an aging population. Another issue of population aging is an increase of individuals surviving to live to an older age outgrowing the number of young people or health care professional’s ability to take care of these older people. The impact of the aging population on the future standard of living may depend on how long people continue to work. Age-related health care declines and the reluctance of employers to hire and retain older workers is a serious cause for concern. Age...
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