| Description |
ix, 104 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface 1 -- Overview 3 -- Chapter 1: The demographic context 15 -- 1.1 Population size and growth 15 -- 1.2 Fertility 16 -- 1.3 Mortality :.. 17 -- 1.4 International migration 18 -- 1.5 Age and gender composition 20 -- 1.6 Population distribution and internal migration 22 -- 1.7 Household and family structure 23 -- 1.8 The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations 24 -- 1.9 Demographic outlook 27 -- Chapter 2: National perceptions of population issues 29 -- 2.1 Population policy 29 -- 2.2 Immigration 30 -- 2.3 Environmental issues 33 -- 2.4 Australia's indigenous peoples:the Aboriginal and -- Torres Strait Islander populations 39 -- 2.5 An ageing population 41 -- Chapter 3: Current status of population-related policy 43 -- 3.1 Population policy 43 -- 3.2 Immigration policy 46 -- 3.3 Integration and multiculturalism 52 -- 3.4 Environmental initiatives 58 -- 3.5 Health care programs 60 -- 3.6 Measures for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait -- Islander peoples 64 -- 3.7 Population ageing 66 -- Chapter 4: Maternal and child health/family planning service delivery and -- related maternity benefits programs 71 -- 4.1 Introduction 71 -- 4.2 Hospitals and maternal/child health centres 71 -- 4.3 Teenage pregnancies and births 73 -- 4.4 Special post-natal care 74 -- 4.5 Birthing options 75 -- 4.6 The Family Planning Program 75 -- 4.7 Parenting education 78 -- 4.8 Infertility and sub-fertility 79 -- Chapter 5: Other population-related activities 81 -- 5.1 Equal participation of women 81 -- 5.2 Measures to eliminate unemployment 82 -- Chapter 6: Analysis of experiences and lessons learned 85 -- Chapter 7: The role and relevance of the World Population Plan of -- Action and other Instruments 87 -- 7.1 Introduction 87 -- 7.2 Development of a population policy 88 -- 7.3 Population, consumption, investment and international -- equity 88 -- 7.4 Morbidity and mortality 88 -- 7.5 Access to family planning 89 -- 7.6 Population distribution and internal migration 89 -- 7.7 Equal participation of women 89 -- 7.8 International migration 91 -- 7.9 Statistical data, research and information dissemination 91 -- 7.10 Measures to eliminate unemployment 91 -- 7.11 Redressing imbalances between population growth and -- resources and environmental sustainability 92 -- Chapter 8: International co-operation on population 95 -- 8.1 Introduction 95 -- 8.2 Australia's policy on assistance to international population -- programs 101 -- 8.3 Australia's population assistance 103 -- 8.4 Future directions 103 |
| Notes |
"Prepared by the National Committee for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development 1994." -- p. iv |
| Issuing Body |
Prepared by a national committee chaired by Richard Woolcott |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Australia.
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Population assistance -- Australia.
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Birth control -- Australia.
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Population assistance -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Population policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007505
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Australia -- Population.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114319
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| Author |
Woolcott, Richard, 1927-
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Australia. National Committee for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development 1994
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International Conference on Population and Development (1994 : Cairo, Egypt)
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| LC no. |
94098657 |
| ISBN |
064433245X (paperback) |
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