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Beijing Forum 2007: Academic Briefing
of the Population Panel (Ⅰ)
By Zhang Andi
PKU NEWS 2007--11--04
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=194188231
The Great Hall of the People, Beijing, Nov. 2, 2007: The Session 1 of the panel
‗Diversity of Population Development and Health Security‘ of Beijing Forum 2007
was held at Guizhou Hall this afternoon. The topic of this session is general and
aging issues, about which ten famous domestic and foreign population scholars
addressed a speech each. This is the first half of the session.
After a welcome speech by Zheng Xiaoying, Director of the Institute of Population
Research of Peking University, Siri Tellier addressed a speech with a topic of ―Post
Transition Low Fertility and Aging Issues‖, which explores some of the variations of
ageing among different countries, their causes and consequences, and identifies
some new approaches for analyzing the issue of ageing, e.g. with respect to
demographic, economic, social, health, political and interpersonal relations aspects,
and proposes a framework to approach ageing, to build ―A society for all ages‖.
Then Chang Chun analyzed the impacts of health education on rural people‘s
willingness of participating in the New-type Rural Cooperative Medical Care System
to emphasize the importance of health education.
The third speaker is John Bongaarts. He identified five driving factors for population
growth which are unwanted childbearing, high desired fertility, declining mortality,
population momentum and net migration, and proposed a method, the
decomposition exercise, to identify the main factors for population growth for each
country and therefore to recommend policy options to address rapid population
growth.
Later on, Renato Maia Guimaraes explored the demand and provision of health
service in population aging and emphasized the community and home care for the
aged population. He proposed a health model centered in the community with
emphasis on primary care, adopting technology suitable for this level, changing the
axis of assistance from hospital to home.
In the end of the first half of the session, Linda Rosenstock presented two case
studies illustrating the importance of investing in public health and its infrastructure:
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