Aging, Family Support Systems, Saving and Wealth: Is Decline on the Horizon for Japan? Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa, and Takehiro Fukui October 7, 2004 In many industrialized nations, fertility rates are now below the level of replacement, and life expectancy at birth has reached 80 years in a few select countries. As a result, population age distributions are changing markedly, with a relative ...

Of the many changes which have characterized the second demographic transition, shifts in fertility and union formation have attracted a great deal of interest from demographers. Despite the fact that researchers have extensively modeled recent demographic changes such as skyrocketing divorce rates, rising common-law union formation, delayed childbearing, and the decline to belowreplacement fer...

Kerala is well-known globally for the unprecedented fertility transition in the Indian subcontinent towards the end of the last century. The state has already reached below-replacement fertility level in the 1990s while the rest of India was experiencing high or mid-level fertility. With this backdrop, an attempt was made in this paper (a) to explore the plausible factors associated with sub-re...

background and objectives: needle stick and sharp injuries (nsis) has remained as a persisting occupational hazard among the healthcare workers. this study aimed to provide updated information on the intensity and potential causes of the problem in iran, by surveying a sample from major hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences.   methods: of 3312 healthcare workers with t...

the first demographic transition started in many western industrialized societies around the latter part of the nineteenth century with steady mortality improvement. expectation of life at birth, about 40 years at the start of the transition, has now doubled (riley 2001). Fertility declined from a level of about five children to under two children per woman over the same period (Coale and watki...