The document discusses factors influencing population growth, including birth and death rates, immigration, and impacts of technological and healthcare development. It highlights historical views on population dynamics, particularly Malthusian theory, and identifies various public health initiatives and policies aimed at managing population growth in developing countries. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for reproductive health education and access to family planning resources to mitigate excessive population increases.

2.  The increase in the number of people
residing in a particular area.
 FORMULA:
› (birth rate + immigration) - (death rate +
emigration)

6.  Natural calamities
 Plagues
 Few health care facilities
 Almost equal birth and death rates
 Less technological development

7.  Improved technological facilities
 Good health care facilities
 Proper and effective communication tools
 Industrialization
 More birth rate in comparison to the death
rate

8.  Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
› An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects
the Future Improvement of Society (1978)
 Natural resources increase in an arithmetic progression while
human population increases in a geometric progression

9.  A sudden, large increase in the size of a
population

10.  Increase in all kinds of pollution

14.  Disturbances to the natural wildlife habitat
 Low development in developing countries
 Increased spread of diseases
 Poverty
 Increased demand for all resources

15.  Spreading awareness about population
growth
 Proper implementation of community health
program.
 Incentives to the people for sterilization.
 Providing facilities like contraceptives, IUD,
birth control pills, sterilization etc.

16.  National family welfare program (1951)
› Reducing birth rate to reduce population
 National population policy (2000)
› Commitment of the government towards providing reproductive
heath care
 National rural health mission (2005)
› Effective health care for rural people
 Urban family welfare schemes (1983)
› Education about first aid and birth control
 Sterilization beds scheme (1964)
› Hospitals specifically for tubectomy
 Reproductive and child health care program (1997)
› Education and intervention regarding child heath care and STDs