title: Refining the issues for realistic population-development policies in Africa.
abstract: "Varied population issues have sprung up as the population-development question has received more attention with time.... This paper takes up [critical population] issues and refines them in the perspective of African realities for long-term development.  It is argued that the assumptions on which the Coale-Hoover model is based are untenable in the African circumstances.... The issues [considered in this paper] and having a common denominator, namely, reduction of current high fertility, are as follows: (a) old age structure and prospects for economic development; (b) the danger for Africa of rapid decline in fertility; (c) maternal and child health advantages; and, (d) environmental protection."
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001723:Birth Rate; D002669:Child Welfare; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004777:Environment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005298:Fertility; D006262:Health; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D011153:Population; D011155:Population Control; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D011640:Public Policy; D012922:Social Change; D012939:Social Planning; D013995:Time; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Africa; Child Health; Critique; Demographic Aging; Demographic Factors; Demographic Impact; Developing Countries; Development Planning; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Environment; Fertility; Fertility Decline; Health; Longterm Effects; Maternal Health; Policy; Population; Population Control; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Population Policy; Social Development; Social Policy; Time Factors