Understanding Population Welfare: Definition, Meaning, and Importance
Population welfare encompasses strategies to improve people's quality of life through essentials like health and education, with a focus on marginalized groups. Family planning plays a crucial role in achieving small family norms for better social services delivery. Stabilizing population growth is vital for a sustainable planet.
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Population Welfare Population Welfare Definition, Meaning & Importance
Population welfare, which means how the quality of peoples lives can be improved by providing them with essentials, especially health and education, is something which must be considered today by all political parties, especially with their focus on marginalized sections of society such as women, children and minorities. The population welfare strategies therefore focus on giving parents the opportunity to choose smaller families. As high levels of fertility are associated with health risks for both mother and children, and puts added pressure on efforts to expand and improve the delivery of basic social services. But in order to understand that what is this small family norm and how it can be attained, at first, it is important to understand the phenomenon of family planning.
Often people wonder just exactly what family planning is and how it can help people. Becoming family planners means that a couple understands how important it is to have only as many children as the family and the country can care for adequately, and to space these children properly- and it means that the couple is able to achieve this goal. Family planning not only means deciding how many children you want and how often you want to bear them. It means using a modern method of birth control to achieve your goals. Some couples may want to have all of their children soon after they are married, and stop bearing children while they are still young and healthy. Other couples might decide to wait a few years before they begin having children.
In simple terms we may define the term as: Family Planning refers to enlarging the size of the family up to a limit in accordance with the size of income of a family. The small size will improve the standard of living of the family. Thus, it implies to have children by choice not by chance, by design and not by accident. In simple words, acceptance of small family norm and of less number of children is the thrust of family planning programme .
Importance of Population Welfare: Importance of Population Welfare: We cannot have a sustainable planet without stabilizing population. As human populations grow, human demands for resources like water, land, trees, and energy also grow. Unfortunately, the price of all this growth is paid for by other endangered plants and animals and an increasingly volatile and dangerous climate. Any truly meaningful conservation and sustainability efforts must take the expanding human population footprint into consideration.
Globally, over 228,000 people are added every day each needs sufficient land, water, shelter, food, and energy for a decent life. But, luckily, population growth is not an intractable problem. Population growth has relatively easy and inexpensive solutions and because population impacts every environmental challenge it is an essential element to achieve sustainability. In the 21st century, working on the population issue means working against oppressive cultural practices such as the low status of women around the world, gender-based violence, genital mutilation, forced prostitution, and child marriage. It means supporting girls education and reproductive health. After all, the denial of the rights of women and girls are important factors that significantly contribute to high fertility and population growth: because they rob women of social power and self-determination.
Vigorous pursuit of equal rights for women and girls, including women s reproductive self-determination and girls education, is the heart of good population advocacy. Population welfare is, therefore, not only a way of helping individual and families, but also a way of helping the country attain its national goals. It can help us prevent overpopulation, mass poverty and starvation.
