Showing posts with label demography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demography. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Nation health: mission is impracticable

Apple health

More and more Americans save on a food and the matter is that notorious crisis. For 2008 products have risen in price for 17,7%, and this year increase of the prices can reach 20%. Thus to earn we became less approximately on 13%.

As strongly such statistical plug will be reflected in preferences in a choice of products, it is possible to assume, having compared shares of expenses on a food in Europe and in the USA.

In an average European family on meal 10-20% of incomes, while at us almost 43% leave. If to consider, what to save we have got used, first of all, on quality, that time to attend to health of fellow citizens which directly depends on a food.

Health of Americans about which improvement in the near future it is possible to forget became a consequence of inflation and reduction of salaries.

Preventive maintenanceSpeaking about nation health, it is impossible to forget about such important indicator for the country, as birth rate which constantly falls including because of moving of young families from villages in cities «on earnings». Crisis and inflation can do much harm and here.

The rural family on the average has three children, and in a city — only one. For this reason it is necessary to keep countrymen in native places because environment influences a way of life.

Healthy womanTo convince young families there can be only a good infrastructure and the salary. However all the same it is not enough of it. Partly low incomes in villages are guilty in huge unemployment reaching 50% because it is sometimes more favourable to people to sit on the grant, than to earn for a life pennies on heavy work.

Bad conditions of a life and absence of employment became the reason of general drunkenness in a countryside. The alcoholism, in turn, sharply reduces life expectancy of peasants, especially men.

Such problem is well familiar to Finns who yet had so a long time a similar problem, but could solve it successfully. The general director of known company Mika Koskinen has given an example one Finnish province where thanks to unemployment decrease in a countryside, life expectancy has increased for 20 years. Besides an equipment, the Finnish government was engaged also in the spiritual. Citizens urged to conduct a healthy way of life and more attentively concerns the food. Probably, experience of neighbours could help and the American province.

Monday, March 2, 2009

«Youth Bulge»

The friend has sent from England an English translation of the interview published in the Danish language with German professor Gunnar Heinsohn, having advised to read it, despite possible depressive reaction.
I would not like to read 16 pages at all, as at me and so the heap not read has collected. But having seen the beginning, I could not come off any more.

Interview was is taken concerning an exit in 2003 of its sensational book: «Sohne und Weltmacht: Terror im Aufstieg und Fall der Nationen».

Having read it, I have immediately gone on Google and have found out, that the author — the 63-year-old professor of the Bremen university, the sociologist, the economist and the researcher of a genocide. He has written set of books about rising and a decline of civilisations, since the Bronze age, the Ancient Greece, the Near-Eastern countries and finishing the Holocaust and modern Europe.

In the book «Sons and world supremacy» it gives an explanation to the phenomenon which has generated an unforeseen and inexplicable wave of terrorism and violence which breaks now our world, naming this phenomeno «Youth Bulge».

Definition of this phenomenon proves to be true elementary mathematical calculation — comparison of quantity of men at the age of 40 — 44 years with boys at the age from 0 till 4 years. Demographic failure occurs when on each 100 men at the age of 40 — 44 years are necessary less, than 80 boys at the age from 0 till 4 years. In Germany it is a parity equally 100/50, and in sector of Gaza — 100/464.

Heinsohn uses the term «demographic failure» to characterise the countries which will be incapable to resist to a priority of youth from other countries. Germany and Japan are ready to delivery to the countries similar Muslim, — to Afghanistan (100 men/403 of the boy), Iraq (100 men/351 of the boy) and Somalia (100 men/364 of the boy).

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Radical measures

The main health officer of the country Gennady Onishchenko suggests to take radical measures. He considers, that it is necessary to forbid the use, sale and manufacture of cigarettes in territory of Russia.
Though the radical interdiction will follow not at once, before there will be a certain special program following the results of which realisation, it will be clear to forbid or not.

According to Onishenko, last years the tobacco use in Russia causes to a society a catastrophic damage. "Smoke 60 percent of men, from the illnesses caused by smoking, for some previous years has died more than 300 thousand persons".

However, manufacturers of tobacco in it are not assured not so. So the general director of association "Tabaco&Co" Vadim Zhelnin, considers, that the full interdiction for smoking of a problem will not solve, but only will increase number of the crimes made in the country.

Meanwhile Gennady Onishchenko has fallen with criticism upon those who insists that manufacturers of tobacco should be involved in charities actively.
The citation under the Interfax: "In one civilised country not only it is not authorised to the tobacco companies, but also categorically it is forbidden to be engaged in charity or any other positive activity".
It is considered, that at the population the image of manufacturers of tobacco and alcohol can be generated positive.