Global Population

Schools of Thought: An Analysis of Interest Groups Influential in International Population Policy

Martha Campbell
1998

This analysis, written in 1993, explores the relationships; among competing schools of thought in the international population policy arena. It offers the following observations: (1) Five interest groups are influential: the population-concerned community, a market-oriented group, people focusing on equitable distribution of resources, women’s advocates, and the Vatican; (2) Only one of the five groups wants to draw attention to population growth; the other four all have other priorities and prefer to reduce attention to demography, seeing attention to population growth as interfering with...

Sex and the Birth Rate: Human Biology, Demographic Change, and Access to Fertility Regulation Methods

Malcolm Potts
1997

This articItalic (Ctrl+I)le explores the influences of evolution, fertility regulation technology and demographic transaction has on the birthrate.

Published in Population Development Review

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The population policy pendulum. Needs to settle near the middle–and acknowledge the importance of numbers

Malcolm Potts
2005

Whether loved or unwanted, the birth of the six billionth child will be of great importance to his or her family. In a world that adds one million more births than deaths every 110 hours, however, the aggregate of human numbers is also important. Unfortunately, in such an emotional area, interest groups have often promoted their own priorities at the expense of the bigger picture.

Published in BMJ, 10 9 1999, 319(7215):933-4

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The most pressing issue

Malcolm Potts
2000

The article discusses the role of medicine profession in supporting access to family planning

Published in J R Soc Med, 1 2000, 93(1):1-2

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Important step for global security

Martha Campbell
Malcolm Potts
2003

This letter to the lancet discusses the need to meet the increasing demand for access to modern family planning and family as a strategy for global security

Published in Lancet, 7 5 2003, 362(9377):76

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Population and environment in the twenty-first century

Malcolm Potts
2007

Abstract: In the past 50 years global population grew by 3.7 billion. There is a large unmet need for family planning and wherever women have been given the means and the information to decide if or when to have the next child, then family size has fallen, often rapidly. However, since the UN 1994 Cairo conference on population and development, support for international family has collapsed and fertility declines in many of the poorest countries have stalled. Amongst some of the most vulnerable groups family size has risen. The investment made in voluntary family planning will largely...

Eight Mondays: a parliamentary group ends the silence on population

Martha Campbell
2007

In the summer of 2006, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Population, Development and Reproductive Health held a series of Monday hearings at Westminster, London, UK, on population growth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For a joyous moment, good science and sound politics came together.

Published in The Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, April 2007, 33(2):75-6

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Return of the Population Growth Factor

Martha Campbell
John Cleland
Alex Ezeh
Ndola Prata
2007

This Policy Forum explains how the Millenium Development Goals set by the United Nations cannot be achieved unless family planning is made easily available in the lowest-income countries.

Published in Science, March 16 2007, 1501-2

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Conservation and family planning in Tanzania: the TACARE experience

Amy A. Grossman
Mary Mavanza
2007

Abstract: Community-based distribution (CBD) programs present an alternative way of effectively reaching people in rural areas of developing countries where conventional methods of delivery do not exist or fail. This paper reviews the experience and findings from the Jane Goodall Institute’s (JGI) TACARE program in the Kigoma region of Tanzania. It focuses on the family planning CBD program and its integration within the TACARE program to meet the broader mission of JGI’s conservation efforts. Both qualitative and survey data suggest that the CBD program meets the needs for contraception...

Population growth and the Millennium Development Goals

Malcolm Potts
J Fotso
2007

Comment in the Lancet about the Return of the Population Growth Factor: its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, a report of hearings held in the UK Parliament.

Return of the Population Growth Factor: its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, a report of hearings held in the UK Parliament in 2006, focuses on the devastating impact of population growth on the Millennium Dev elopment Goals (MDGs). The report was released on Jan 31. The Inquiry Chairman, Richard Ottaway, Mem ber of Parliament (MP), concludes: “The evidence is overwhelming: the MDGs are difficult or...