World population and health in transition

BMJ 1999;319:981-984 ( 9 October )

Education and debate

World population and health in transition

Veena Soni Raleigh, honorary senior lecturer.

Centre for Public Health Monitoring, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT

v.raleigh@lshtm.ac.uk

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The past 200 years have witnessed a revolution in global fertility, mortality, and population growth rates, in which the demographyand health of human populations have been transformed. Vast genderand geographical inequalities in income and health persist, andnew threats such as HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, and populationageing have emerged. In July a special session of the United NationsGeneral Assembly met to consider global progress in implementingthe programme of action agreed at the 1994 international conferenceon population and development in Cairo.¹ It approved far reachingrecommendations for dealing with global trends in reproductivehealth and population.

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This article reviews the transition in world health and population, and considers the changes that lie ahead. The economicand environmental implications of changes in the size, structure,and consumption patterns of world population are discussed inthe other papers in this issue.

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