population explosion in India India with a current population of 105 crores is nearly bursting at the seams. In August 1947‚ when our country threw off the shackles of colonialism‚ we were a country of 34.5 crore people. The census taken a few years earlier had put it at just 33 crores‚ mindboggling‚ even then by international standards. The only country which has had the unenviable distinction of having a population more than India was China. It still remains slightly ahead. In August 1999‚ the
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Medical Care for an Aging Population Chad Sommers HCS/440 January 12‚ 2012 Pranab Rout Aging is an inevitable event that all people will have to face at sometime in their life. No matter gender‚ ethnicity‚ or race‚ aging affects every individual in different ways as unique as their own personality. As the Baby-Boomer generation begins to reach retirement age‚ there is becoming an urgent need for expanding the national geriatric medical services
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Population Education Definition "Population Education or population awareness refers to factual knowledge about population dynamics required to understand the nature and magnitude of the burden imposed by rapid population growth" Aims and objectives of population education? Population Education is one of the upcoming educational innovations in the world. It has a relatively short history. The first national seminar on Population Education was held in Mumbai in 1969. Now the inevitable question
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Population ecology is the branch of ecology that studies the structure and dynamics of populations. In population ecology a population is a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area. In contrast to genetics‚ where the population is a group of interbreeding individuals of the same species‚ which is isolated from other groups and in human demography‚ the population is the set of humans in a given area. Population density is a common biological measurement and is often used
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of life and the rise of permanent settlements and eventually cities‚ the human population has undergone dramatic growth. "It took until after 1800‚ virtually all of human history‚ for our population to reach 1 billion. Yet we reached 2 billion by 1930‚ and 3 billion in just 30 more years‚ in 1960" (Withgott & Brennan‚ 218). Today the world ’s population has grown to an estimated 6.5 billion people. "Increased population intensifies impact on the environment as more individuals take up space‚ use natural
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populated country in the world though it is a small country of only 1‚ 47‚ 570 square kilometers. At present it has a population over 150 million. About 1000 people live per square kilometer here. Every year more than two million people are being added to our population. The problem has now moved out of control and it has now come to the stage of explosion. Though the population of a country is an asset‚ it becomes a problem when the country cannot afford to give its people the basic necessaries
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Population and Sampling MTH/231 August 29‚ 2012 Importance of Population and Sampling History from Political Arithmetic to Statistics The history timeline show evidence of statistical data as early as Ancient Greece time but records show statistics in late 16th century‚ when it was introduced by‚ John Graunt‚ William Petty‚ and Pascal and later in 17th century by Gottfried Achenwall. It was an exciting time when success and discoveries raised the confidence of scientists‚ physicist and astronomers
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Ian deGrouchy Mrs. Psitos Math IMP 2H 18 December 2007 Growth of Rat Populations This POW is about the growth of a rat population over a year. Two rats‚ one male and one female‚ are put on an island that has ideal conditions for rats. The female rat has a litter of six rats the first day‚ and will have a litter every forty days after that. There are three important things to remember‚ and they are that the number of rats in every litter is six‚ three females and three males. Secondly
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Population Density Debra Smith OMM 612 Managing Social Change Prof. Martin Cain September 24‚ 2012 Population Density According to Social Indicators Research (2002) population density is “the number of people living per square kilometer in the district of the city where the respondent lived” (Social Indicators‚ proquest database). The American population is very dense. According the United States Census Bureau the current United States population is 314‚440‚872 people. In some areas of
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The Homeless as a Vulnerable Population Sara Williams Nur/440 9-5-2011 University of Phoenix The Homeless as a vulnerable population This article discusses a framework for understanding the nature of the homeless population. It discusses four pathways‚ increased heat waves‚ and increased air pollution‚ increases severity of floods and storms‚ and it also talks about the distribution of the West Nile Virus. The article discusses why the homeless are amongst the most vulnerable groups to
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