Tag: Infant Mortality
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Mission Yearbook Rebuttal
Presbyterians have a long tradition of praying for ministry around the nation and worldwide using The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study. Today's entry is about ministry in Asia and the Pacific. The entry includes the following: In the last decade, the Asia and Pacific region has experienced major shifts in both international and ecclesiastical…
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WSI: Infant Mortality
A second measure of prosperity demographers frequently use is the infant mortality rate. The infant mortality rate is the number of children that die between birth and their first birthday per 1,000 live births. Because the first year of life is when human beings are most vulnerable, their ability to survive the first year of…
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World Social Indicators: Introduction
Is the state of the world getting better or getting worse? How would you answer that question? What indicators would you look to? In his book Making the Best of It: Following Jesus in the Real World, John Stackhouse makes the case that our mission is to seek the greatest shalom possible in the world,…
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MEC: Measuring Prosperity Past and Present
Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. I mean two things by that. First, it is lacking in historical perspective. Second, it takes present circumstances, values, rates of consumption, and technologies and projects them unaltered into the future. It is like taking a frame from a video clip, ignoring everything…
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Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy
SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 (USA) Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Several factors contribute to having a high quality of life. These include safe environments, adequate diet, adequate health care, sufficient education, adequate financial resources, and nurturing families and communities, to name just a few. There are measures that tell us about each of these variables, but…
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A world full of good news
Boston.com: A world full of good news Malthus wrote just before the turn of the 19th century, when the Earth was home to some 980 million human beings. The global population today is about 6.5 billion, a sevenfold increase. If the alarmists are right, our lives should be far more impoverished, degraded, and pitiful than…
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American Social Indicators, 2006: Getting Better but Feeling Worse
Over the past month, I have done twelve posts on American cultural indicators. Here is an index to those posts: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Suicide Crime (Part 1) Crime (Part 2) Substance Abuse Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 1) Family Formation and Sexuality (Part 2) Education Economic Status (Part 1) Economic Status (Part 2)…
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Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy
SOCIAL INDICATORS 2006 Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Several factors contribute to having a high quality of life. These include safe environments, adequate diet, adequate health care, sufficient education, adequate financial resources, nurturing families and communities, to name just a few. Some measures tell us about each of these variables, but demographers tend to start…
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Social Indicators: Ethnicity
I have avoided giving an extensive analysis of subgroups within American culture during this series on social indicators. I have been focused on trends at the most aggregate level. However, one measure of the quality of life for the whole society is the degree to which each person has an opportunity for a quality of…
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Social Indicators: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy
There is a common perception that the quality of life in American society is in decline and has been in decline for some time. Is this perception accurate, and in what ways? If perception doesn't match reality, why? Over the next few weeks, I will write several posts looking at social indicators. After that, I…