Strayer University Discussion Questions

1) DISCUSSION POST   

Examining World Population Growth

What strategies do you think will be most successful in addressing population growth in developing countries? Explain your response.

2)PEER REVIEW #1 (ANIKA)

Hello Class and Professor, 

Strategies I think would be most successful in addressing population growth would be education and through education the empowering of women.  “The empowerment of women and the improvement of their political social, economic and health status are highly important ends in themselves. We further believe that human development cannot be sustained unless women are guaranteed equal rights and equal status with men. In this process, women should be seen not merely as the beneficiaries of change but as the agents of change as well. This entails enhancement of their own gender awareness. We believe that education is the single most important element on the road to equality and empowerment of women.”  (Admin 2018)

I also think through this education the advancement of technology and health conditions and preventions. Of course to women but also to everyone. To be a little more broken down…

• Work toward gender equality   
• Education of girls   
• Women given more control over their lives   
• Family planning   
• Health services for women   
• New contraceptive technology   
• Mass media to educate both men and women about birth control options   
• Increased economic opportunities for women  

https://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/public-health-t…

https://www.renewableresourcescoalition.org/overpo…

http://www.worldwatch.org/nine-population-strategi…

Hite, K.A. & Seitz, J.L. (2016). Global issues: an introduction. p. 1-50. Wiley Blackwell

3) PEER REVIEW #2 (CHRISTINA)

Hi,

I think that population growth does have to do with the lack of contraceptive use in many countries. Probably including our own to be honest. However, some people do not like the chemicals in their bodies that mess with the chemistry of the body. The developing countries do not think about families like the united states do because they will have large families and not think about how to support them. How the families are in the developing countries seem to be is that they want their own families in large quantities but not exactly are they thinking about how to support them. Always could use the united states’ approach and use the GMOs to help feed the population better. Or there will have to be a lot of people that will have to go through classes as minor children like the people in the united states do that explain how children are made and how life really is with children and what it takes to raise one. They would have to be explained that it costs a lot of money to have a family and everything that it really takes to have a family. When they are explained how things really work and the cost possibly they can learn how to plan for the future instead of just having children. I think its a lack of knowledge about what the future really holds for everyone that is in it. 

Christina