Health & Human Services

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Introduction

This is a proposal that will discuss the `problems and solutions of growing human population in under-developed countries , the most prevailing environmental issue which is also a cause of many other natural issues . We will start off by describing in detail the human population structure followed by discussing factors that make it grow and are affected by it . Finally , a new strategy , a program will be developed to help resolve this problem . Its requirements in terms of budget , staffing etc will be studied

Discussion p

Problem

Human Population is a common term known by everyone . It means the number of humans in the world at some point in time . As of July 9 , 2008 (right now , the world 's Population Clock- Worldometers , 2008 ) and has increased as I was completing the sentence . The number keeps growing every second . Human Population itself is not a problem . However , it becomes a problem when too many or too less humans live in it and this is known as Over Population and Under Population respectively . increasing at a rate of around 1 .15 per year and the HYPERLINK "http /www .census .gov /ipc /www /idb /estandproj .html " \t "_blank " average annual population change is approximated at over 77 million right now

Human population follows the pattern of an exponential growth it grows slowly at first but then very rapidly (Hopkins , J , 2008 . This clearly has implications for the future as the world will become over-populated at one time . Over-population is when the resources of an area can not meet the needs of the humans living in it or in other words the Earth 's carrying capacity is utilized . Hence , it is problematic , very

Analysis

The most obvious factor that contributes to human population is humans themselves . Population obviously increases because of increased birth rates or an increase in the fertility rate . People in developing countries are having more and more babies everyday because of which the number is increasing . Humans are also affected by the growing population themselves

Along with increased birth rates , decreased death rates or mortality also could also contribute to human population . The death /mortality rate decreases when medical and health care facilities are good . The growth in an economy is shown by increased and enhanced health-care facilities and hence , a lower number of deaths and a higher life expectancy age Therefore , the level of development and population is definitely correlated

Other than that , migration also contributes to and is affected human population . It increases as humans move in to a place . However migration clearly has no effect on the overall world population except if people move to countries where restriction policies on the number of children apply

When humans live in a place , they make use of the resources in that place also . As a result , humans certainly have an impact . The human population makes use of the Earth 's limited resources to satisfy there needs and wants . Pollution increases when they use resources to...