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    Human beings need to have adequate nutrition to attain normal physical growth (in children) and for a healthy life. Adequate nutrition is a fundamental right for every human being. If people fail to consume sufficient quality and quantity of nutrients, they will suffer from hunger or malnutrition. Malnutrition takes a variety of forms. The main types of malnutrition seen in Nepal are protein-energy malnutrition, iodine deficiency disorders, iron deficiency anemia and vitamin A deficiency. In particular

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    Following World War II, the United States experienced a high birth rate, adding on average 4.24 million new babies to the population every year between 1946 and 1964. The generation of baby boomers resulted a strong post war economy. Americans thought confident that they would be able to support a larger number of children. The baby boom influenced the economy as a core demographic for products tied to their age from toys. After nine months after World War II ended, “the cry of the baby was heard

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    Let me paint you a picture. You are in a lift and suddenly the door opens and 50 more people enter the lift . How would you feel ? Won’t it be a bit suffocating. Would you like to be in that situation? And Can the situation be in real ? Well it may be . According to a research , over the next 30 years Australia’s population will grow by 11.8 million people . Can you believe at present the overall total population increases 1 person every 1 minute and 26 seconds . It is interesting to highlight that

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    Multiple people prioritize having a huge family to live happily. People should be able to live their life the way they want to. Prohibiting people from having a certain number of children is unhuman. No one should be forced to do something they do not agree with. China’s one-child policy is wrong in many ways. Even though it fights to solve a social problem, overpopulation, it violates several rights in order to accomplish this one goal. Although overpopulation is the main reason for this policy

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    The demographic revolution that has taken place in the United States between 1965 and the present was one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in history. People coming into the United States from all around the world seeked economic opportunities, but it wasn’t until after the Cold War that the U.S opened their doors. Nonetheless, the population in the U.S. has been leaning towards becoming a majority minority, which means that the minority groups will soon become the majority instead of Whites

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    The exponential population growth of the human species has created a mass debate for centuries. A great speculation exists that involves the sustainability of the human species, along with other species, into the distant future. Over the years, as the numbers steadily rise the governments of several countries limited the number of children per household in order to limit the exponential growth of the human race. Some scientists believe that the world will inevitably make the novel “Brave New World”

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    Social Determinants of Health Q1. The mortality rate for children under 5 years in Africa among twelve countries indicate that the “mortality went high in 1990 by 52% in Botswana and Zimba 43%, according to Michael Marmot, and 75% of child mortality in Iraq. The classification of a household for child mortality is varies among countries. The child mortality is the highest among countries within the poorest household, and also there is the higher level of socioeconomic of the household lower mortality

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    Over the past twentieth century the lifespan of Canadians has increased dramatically, lasting in longer lifespan because of many attributable advances in public health1. There are several achievements that made a remarkable change in the history of public health in Canada. One of this remarkable change was in safer and healthier food1. Experts in public health industry have been working over century to ensure Canadians have access to healthier and safer diet1. Over the century ago, safer milk was

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    Feral Cat Mitigation Efforts: TNR and More With feral cats posing ecological and public health threats, many different techniques, reflecting a range of moral and ethical values, have been proposed and implemented. TNR is considered one of the most humane methods, but other methods that exist include euthanasia, trap and eradication, and more intensive versions of TNR that include vaccinations and rehabilitations. These methods vary in their effectiveness, practicality, cost and social acceptance

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    During the course of the long history, the development of the world population directly depends on the mode of social production, especially the level of development of productive forces. In the history, mankind got the tremendous progress in productivity often with the population rapid develop. In the primitive society, the primitive society 's population birth rate and the mortality rate all maintained at about 50% because of the objective law and the social production mode. The number of the population

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