Population, Health & Sustainability

Population, Health & Sustainability

1 Introduction to Population

  1. World Population
  2. Population Data
  3. Population Distribution and Composition
  4. Fertility
  5. Mortality
  6. Internal Migration
  7. International Migration Flows
  8. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
  9. Linking Population Growth with Economic Development, Resource Scarcity and Food Security

2 Trends in Demographic Transition

  1. Demographic transition theory
  2. Regional Analysis of mortality and fertility
  3. India’s Demographic transition: National trends in population growth

3 Emerging Issues and India’s Initiatives

  1. Migration and Urbanisation
  2. Health and Epidemiological Issues
  3. Demographic dividend
  4. Population and sustainable development in the Indian context: The story so far
  5. Global Hunger Index
  6. The issue of food security in India: challenges and initiatives
  7. Human Development Index: Where does India stand?

4 Myths and Realities

  1. India and its population: a problem?
  2. Population & Sustainability: Inverse Relationship?
  3. Development’: For whom and at what cost?
  4. Population and sustainability issues in India: Lessons from other parts of the world?

5 Sustainable Development and Sustainability

  1. What is Sustainable Development, and Sustainability?
  2. Components of Sustainable Development
  3. Pillars of Sustainability
  4. Examples of India’s Sustainable Development Policies
  5. Examples of Sustainability

6 Population, Sustainability and the Marginalized

  1. The Marginalized in a Human Population
  2. Causes of Marginalization and issues of sustainability
  3. Population Issues and Marginalization

7 Role of Civil Society and Movements

  1. Concept and meaning of civil society
  2. Civil society and state
  3. Civil Society Groups and Movements in India
  4. Significance and Relevance

8 Programmes and Policies Related to Population

  1. Policies on growth, aging and spatial distribution
  2. Policies on Urbanization, Fertility and Reproductive Health
  3. Policies on Migration
  4. COVID-19 Impact on Migration, Mortality and Fertility
  5. Population Policies in More Developed Nations
  6. Population Policies in Less Developed Nations
  7. Population Policies in India

9 Nutrition Security and Sustainable Development

  1. Meaning and concept of nutrition security
  2. Relationship between nutrition security and sustainable development

10 Interventions for Reducing Under Nutrition in Infant and Young Children

  1. Introduction
  2. Types and Measures of Undernutrition
  3. Causes and Consequences of Undernutrition
  4. Interventions to Prevent Undernutrition

11 Interventions for Reducing Undernutrition in Girls and Women

  1. Undernutrition – Status of undernutrition in girls and women in World and India
  2. Causes and determinants of undernutrition
  3. Impact of under nutrition in girls and women
  4. Interventions for reducing under nutrition in girls and women

12 Pandemics and Epidemics

  1. Definitions of Pandemic and epidemics
  2. Differences between endemic and epidemic; epidemic and pandemic diseases
  3. References to historical occurrences across continents – Asia, Africa and America
  4. Major issues and challenges emerging from the study of epidemics and pandemics
  5. National epidemics/pandemic history of India

13 Pandemics, Epidemics and Economy

  1. Pandemics and Epidemics impacting economy
  2. Economic impacts – types and magnitudes
  3. Economic crises associated with Epidemics and pandemics
  4. Techno-economic influence of Epidemics or pandemics
  5. Post-pandemic or endemic economic recovery

14 Pandemics, Epidemics and Society

  1. Understanding the impacts of an epidemic or a pandemic at societal levels
  2. Pandemics and Epidemics impacting economy
  3. Understanding the challenges of dealing with an epidemic
  4. Health inequalities, One Health, ES ratings and the Global Health Security Agenda of W.H.O

15 Pandemics, Epidemics and Human Wellbeing

  1. Understanding the impacts of an epidemic or a pandemic at societal levels
  2. Well-being – definitions, status
  3. How to measure well-being and its relationship with SDGs
  4. Understanding the long-term consequences and challenges of dealing with an epidemic or pandemic
  5. Human wellbeing and the mitigation towards controlling the impacts of epidemic/pandemic