This paper shows how the measurement of population happiness can inform public policy. In this context happiness refers to mood happiness, commonly referred to as Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). The essential character of SWB is that it is normally positive. It is held to be positive by a management system called SWB Homeostasis. If this management system fails, due to the balance of challenges to ...

Politicians have joined local authorities, teachers and even the police in warning that public services in areas of high immigration could be overwhelmed by the sudden influx of new arrivals. The government has responded by talking up its proposed reform to immigration controls and sharpening its anti-immigrant rhetoric – most notably in prime minister Gordon Brown’s claim to want “British jobs...

This article briefly describes key features of the 1994 Cairo Plan of Action and US population assistance, and identifies US efforts to implement the Cairo agenda. US leadership and funding play a key role in global population stabilization issues. Opponents of population assistance in recent years have been undermining the US position as a world leader in global stabilization and restricting...

Crowded China: Following the doubling of its population under chairman Mao Zedong, China introduced the one-child policy to stop the population explosion. (Photo: © Sophie Caron.) The world in 1979, half-way between Hiroshima and today, is already beginning to look exotic in the rearview mirror. Jimmy Carter was still the US president, Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s prime minister, while Leo...

Rapid population growth is a threat to wellbeing in the poorest countries, whereas very low fertility increasingly threatens the future welfare of many developed countries. The mapping of global trends in population growth from 2005-10 shows four distinct patterns. Most of the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are characterised by rapid growth of more than 2% per year. Modera...

In this paper, we established the exploitation of impulsive harvesting single autonomous population model by Logistic equation. By some special methods, we analysis the impulsive harvesting population equation and obtain existence, the explicit expression and global attractiveness of impulsive periodic solutions for constant yield harvest and proportional harvest. Then, we choose the maximum su...

Despite its undeniable currency in research and policy circles, there remains considerable confusion about what 'population health' is. We propose a lexicon for population health in the hope of clarifying issues and advancing this important research emphasis and policy agenda. It distinguishes population health in its literal meaning from a population health perspective, population health resea...