Population Division - 2009

Expert group meeting on health, mortality and development

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:29:00 +0000

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 - 10:00am to Thursday, 12 November 2009 - 5:00pm

Overview

The purpose of the meeting was twofold. First, in preparation for the forty-third session of the Commission on Population and Development, the meeting brought together experts and officials of inter-governmental organizations to discuss the challenges in combating the major causes of death and improving health, including consideration of how to strengthen health systems.

Second, building upon earlier United Nations Coordination Meetings on the Estimation of Adult Mortality held in 2006 and 2008, the meeting focused on methodological issues in the estimation of adult mortality and initiated a comparison and review of adult mortality estimates for selected countries as produced by different institutions. The issues and recommendations discussed during the meeting are reflected in this report.

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Organization of work

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
10:00-12:30	Session 1: Health
	Moderator: Philip Guest, Assistant Director, Population Division/DESA
	Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division. Opening remarks
	1. Global burden of disease and disease control priorities
	Colin Mathers, World Health Organization. Global burden of disease and risk factors Dean Jamison, IHME, University of Washington and Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto. The disease control priorities project Discussion and questions
14:00-17:00	2. Health systems and financing of global health
	Paolo Piva, World Health Organization. Primary health care reforms: Aligning health systems to needs and expectations Andre Medici, World Bank. Reforming health systems for development Discussion and questions
	3. Reproductive health
	Linda Bartlett, Johns Hopkins University. Why isn’t safe motherhood a reality for all pregnant women? Discussion and questions
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
9:00-13:00	4. Infectious and parasitic diseases
	Ramanan Laxminarayan, Princeton University. Prevention and treatment of infectious and parasitic diseases Peter J. Hotez, George Washington University Medical Center. The development impact of the neglected tropical diseases Discussion and questions
	5. Chronic and degenerative diseases
	Prakash Shetty, University of Southampton. Nutrition, lifestyles, obesity and chronic diseases Thomas A. Gaziano, Harvard Medical School. The global burden of chronic diseases Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto. Global mortality from tobacco Discussion and questions Philip Guest, Assistant Director, Population Division. Summary and concluding remarks
14:30-17:30	Session 2: Adult mortality
	Moderator: François Pelletier, Chief, Mortaity Section, Population Division/DESA
	Francois Pelletier, Chief, Mortality Section, Population Division. Overview
	6. Methodological aspects to the estimation of adult mortality
	Mie Inoue, World Health Organization. Overview of procedures used by WHO to generate life tables at the country level Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, IHME, University of Washington. Evaluating methods to estimate the completeness of death registration Haidong Wang, IHME, University of Washington. An Improved Model Life Table System: Semi-parametric Method Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, IHME, University of Washington. Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: A new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006 Discussion and questions
Thursday, 12 November 2009
9:30-12:30	7. A review of adult mortality estimates at the country level
	Representatives of WHO, IHME, the Population Division and others. Discussion will focus on adult mortality estimates by sex for selected countries.
14:00-17:00	8. Next steps and concluding remarks
	François Pelletier, Chief, Mortality Section, Population Division.

* See report.

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Expert group meeting on recent and future trends in fertility

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:27:00 +0000

Wednesday, 02 December 2009 - 10:00am to Friday, 04 December 2009 - 5:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility that will be held in New York from 2 to 4 December 2009. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts to examine recent trends in fertility and discuss future prospects in order to inform the preparation of the 2010 Revision of the World Population Prospects.

The first two days of the meeting will be devoted to the presentations on fertility levels, trends and prospects in diverse countries and regions of the world. The last day of the meeting, devoted to fertility projections, will focus on methodological issues and include a panel discussion on a proposed new methodology to project fertility.

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Organization of work

Wednesday, 2 December 2009
9:30 – 12:30	I. Opening session
	Hania Zlotnik, Director, United Nations Population Division. Projecting fertility: A history (presentation)
	II. Low fertility countries in Europe, Northern America, Australia and New Zealand
	Tomáš Sobotka, Czech Republic, Vienna Institute of Demography. European fertility trends and prospects (presentation) Gerda Neyer, Austria, Stockholm University. Effects of family policies on childbearing behaviour in developed countries (presentation) Hans-Peter Kohler, Germany, University of Pennsylvania. Why has fertility recently increased in many developed countries? (presentation)
14:00 – 17:30	III. Low fertility countries in Asia
	Gavin Jones, Australia, National University of Singapore. Recent fertility trends, policy responses and fertility prospects in low fertility countries of East and Southeast Asia (presentation) Gu Baochang, China, Renmin University of China. Fertility prospects in China (presentation) Ryuichi Kaneko, Japan, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Fertility prospects in Japan (presentation) Sergio DellaPergola, Israel, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Fertility prospects in Israel: Ever below replacement level? (presentation)
	IV. Arab countries –diversity in fertility levels
	Laila El-Zeini, Egypt, Cairo University. Fertility transition in Egypt and Morocco: Explaining the differences (presentation) John Casterline (USA), Ohio State University. Fertility levels and trends in Arab countries: Why so diverse and what are the prospects (presentation)
Thursday, 3 December 2009
9:30 – 12:30	V. Latin American fertility levels
	Suzana Cavenaghi, Brazil, ENCE/IBGE. Diversity of childbearing behaviour within population in the context of below replacement fertility in Brazil (presentation) Guiomar Bay, UN/ECLAC. Latin American fertility decline: Differences and commonalities Luis Rosero-Bixby, Costa Rica, University of Costa Rica. Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing? (presentation)
14:00 – 17:30	VI. Asian countries with intermediate fertility levels
	Carl Haub, USA, Population Reference Bureau. Fertility prospects in India (presentation) Zeba A. Sathar, Pakistan, Population Council. Fertility prospects in Pakistan (presentation) Terry Hull, Australia, Australian National University. Fertility prospects in South-Eastern Asia (presentation)
	VII. Prospects of fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa
	Tom Moultrie, South Africa, University of Cape Town. Stopping, spacing and postponing: The future of the African fertility decline (presentation) Jean-Pierre Guengant, France. Proximate determinants of fertility in Africa and their use in fertility projections (presentation)
Friday, 4 December 2009
9:30 – 12:30	VIII. Projecting fertility
	United Nations Population Division. The evolution of United Nations Population Division’s approach to projecting fertility Presentation of new methodology: Adrian Raftery, Ireland, University of Washington. : Overview of a Bayesian approach to projections Leontine Alkema, Netherlands, National University of Singapore. Methodology for Bayesian projection of fertility (presentation)
	Preliminary assessment of new methodology: United Nations Population Division. Implications for total fertility and population projections
14:00 – 17:30	IX. Panel discussion on projecting fertility
	Peter Johnson, USA, United States Census Bureau Joel Cohen, USA, Rockefeller University Nico Keilman, Norway, University of Oslo Timothy Dyson, United Kingdom, London School of Economics and Political Science Peter Way, USA, United States Census Bureau John Bongaarts, Netherlands, Population Council
	X. Closing

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Eighth coordination meeting on international migration

MSTOCKTO — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:29:00 +0000

Monday, 16 November 2009 - 10:00am to Tuesday, 17 November 2009 - 6:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing the Eighth Coordination Meeting on International Migration. The Meeting is being held in response to General Assembly Resolution 58/208 of 13 February 2004, which requests the Secretary-General to continue convening meetings to coordinate international migration activities.

The Eighth Coordination Meeting on International Migration has the following three objectives: (a) to assess the impact of economic and financial crisis on international migration, (b) to review initiatives to strengthen the evidence base on international migration and development, and (c) to exchange information among United Nations entities and other relevant international organizations on current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development. The outcome of the meeting will contribute to the preparation of the report of the Secretary-General on international migration and development for the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly.

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Commission on Population and Development, forty-second session (2009)

MSTOCKTO — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:24:00 +0000

Monday, 30 March 2009 - 10:00am to Friday, 03 April 2009 - 6:00pm

The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

Ms. Elena Zúñiga Herrera (Mexico) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Chair)

Mr. Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin (Malaysia) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Yera Ortiz de Urbina (Spain) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Ivanka Tasheva (Bulgaria) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Irene Bwalya Muloshi Tembo (Zambia) - African Group (Vice-Chair)

Report of the Commission on its forty-second session

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