Understanding low fertility in Poland

I-29: Fertility Preservation in Early, Low Grade Endometrial Cancer

Background Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, with over 40,000 cases diagnosed each year, typically in the postmenopausal women. 25% of cases affect premenopausal women. 14% of endometrial cancers are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old. 5% of these tumors are diagnosed in women younger than 40 years old. In this talk the learning objecti...

Family and Fertility in Poland – Changes during the Transition Period

Poland like other East European Countries experienced a lot of changes in course of demographic processes during the transition period. I this paper the main concern is put on presentation and evaluation of family and fertility changes during the transition period, ie,. years 1989 – 2001. The evaluation of changes in Poland is presented in comparison to the selected European Countries. The pape...

Understanding Below-replacement Fertility in Kerala, India

Kerala is well-known globally for the unprecedented fertility transition in the Indian subcontinent towards the end of the last century. The state has already reached below-replacement fertility level in the 1990s while the rest of India was experiencing high or mid-level fertility. With this backdrop, an attempt was made in this paper (a) to explore the plausible factors associated with sub-re...

Fertility of internal migrants: comparison between Austria and Poland

What if fertility decline is not permanent? The need for an evolutionarily informed approach to understanding low fertility.

'Demographic transition theory' assumes that fertility decline is irreversible. This commonly held assumption is based on observations of recent and historical reductions in fertility that accompany modernization and declining mortality. The irreversibility assumption, however, is highly suspect from an evolutionary point of view, because demographic traits are at least partially influenced by ...