Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/10131273
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| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
1
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1994-2-28
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http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Americas,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Behavior,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/CULTURE,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Carrying Capacity,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Critique,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Developed Countries,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/ENVIRONMENT,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Economic Factors,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family And Household,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family Characteristics,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Family Relationships,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Gender Issues,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Health--women,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Natural Resources,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/North America,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Northern America,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Population Pressure,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Psychological Factors,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Sex Preference,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Socioeconomic Factors,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Sons,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/United States,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Value Orientation,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/Women's Status,
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/keyword/World
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eng
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H
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MEDLINE
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0899-9287
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
37
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
30-4
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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| pubmed:otherAbstract |
PIP: Explanations of cultural patterns can be found in the economic context (carrying capacity) in which they develop. Population pressure explains the abuse of women throughout history and in modern times because overpopulation leads to devaluation of women's reproductive capacity. A cultural response to overpopulation includes practices that limit the numbers of women of reproductive age. Such practices foster son preference, which results in selective abortion, female infanticide, neglect and overwork of girls, dowry deaths, and discrimination against widows. The results of these practices are manifest in sex ratios that are culturally rather than naturally controlled and in demographic facts such as the calculation that 60 million females are missing in Asia alone (and perhaps more than 100 million worldwide). Women are also removed from a reproductive setting by being kidnapped or sold into prostitution or by being forced to adopt prostitution for economic survival. In cases where survival is threatened by environmental degradation and population growth, the most harsh cultural practices will emerge to adapt the population to the resources at hand. This situation creates an ethical dilemma posed by the problem of imposing Western values on a culture that is undertaking adaptive practices to insure its very survival. Ways to help women in these situation include limiting population growth humanely through family planning, provision of paid work to women, and creation of an environment that supports a small family ideal. Prosperity itself, through modernization, sometimes causes family sizes to increase. The most important intervention appears to be the provision of paid employment outside the home for women. On the other hand, large-scale wealth transfers and liberal immigration policies simply send signals that population pressure is a regional problem that can be alleviated by the international community. Increasing immigration to developed countries will place pressure on the women of those countries by increasing population. The fact that population size in the US is expected to double in 64 years already poses a threat to the status of US women who are not immune from cultural processes.
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pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Cultural Characteristics,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Developing Countries,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Population Dynamics,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Prejudice,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Risk Factors,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Social Values,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-United States,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-Women's Health,
pubmed-meshheading:10131273-World Health
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Population and women's health.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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