Historical reproductive patterns in developed countries: Aggregate-level perspective

Aggregate Planning: Opportunities and Challenges between Developed and Developing Countries

Aggregate planning (AP) is a crucial step of the production planning procedure. It is the process by which a company determines optimal levels of capacity, production, subcontracting, and inventory for its long term planning. This paper presents a comparative analysis related to the impact of social and economic factors on building reliable aggregate plans for companies operating in an internat...

Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries

United States that teenage pregnancy and birth levels are too high. Despite dramatic decreases in teenage pregnancy rates and birthrates in the United States over the past decade, this country still has substantially higher levels of adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and abortion than in other Western industrialized countries. Moreover, teenage birthrates have declined less steeply in the Unit...

Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries

Cohort reproductive patterns in the Nordic countries

Total fertility rates were declining from peaks experienced by early 1930s cohorts for 20 successive cohorts. The decline ceased among the 1950s and 1960s cohorts, because fertility deficits of young women were compensated with increased fertility when women reached their late twenties and thirties. The relative stability of completed fertility of these cohorts is attributed to Nordic social po...

Historical perspective on entry level discussion.

This is in response to "Entry Level Education in Occupational Therapy" by Charlotte Brasic Royeen, which was published in the June 1986 issue (pp. 425-427). The article reads so smoothly that it is possible to be lulled into the feeling that there is no other side to the issue. I would like to bring some needed historical perspective into the discussion. I am just old enough to have had first-h...