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Eggleston: East Asia's demographic challenges

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Demographic change is fast becoming one of the most globally significant trends of the 21st century. Declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy -- two of the patterns triggering demographic change -- will cause vast socioeconomic strains, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, which has some of the world's most populous countries. Stanford health researcher Karen Eggleston says comparison and cross-collaboration are needed to induce creative solutions.

In an interview with the Office of International Affairs, Eggleston discusses her research approaches and partnerships in the study of healthcare systems and health policy in the Asia-Pacific region. She leads a multiyear research initative that examines comparative policy responses to demographic change in East Asia. Eggleston says the goal is to help move global health policy to a place where everyone has an "equal opportunity for a healthier and longer life."

The Q&A may be viewed in full by clicking here.

Analyzing demographic change in China, Japan and South Korea is the focus of the book Aging Asia, an outcome of a conference between the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Stanford Center on Longevity.

Eggleston also coedited a special issue of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing with David Bloom, a professor at Harvard University, looking at a range of economic issues related to population change in China and India.

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At Oslo Freedom Forum, former fellow speaks on lack of political participation among youth

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Recently, Amira Yahyaoui (former Draper Hills Summer Fellow, Tunisia '14) spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum, calling for governments to increase opportunities for youth leadership in the political sphere. In her provoking talk, Yahyaoui argued that lack of opportunities for youth representation in political leadership has had ripples on recruitment of youth in the Islamic State. 

Yahyaoui was also featured in a recent Q&A with Foreign Policy, providing a critique of professional human rights organizations and reflecting on the democratic development of Tunisia. Click here to read the Q&A.

 

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Book Talk: "The Shared Society" feat. Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo

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Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing, and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will increase, and the region's global influence will become greater and greater.

In The Shared Society, Alejandro Toledo, whose tenure as president of Peru helped spur the country's economic renaissance, develops a plan for a future Latin America in which not only is its population much better off economically than today but the vast 40 percent of its poor and marginalized are incorporated into a rising middle class, democratic institutions work more effectively, and the extraordinary ecosystem of Latin America is preserved.

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Alejandro Toledo served as the President of Peru from 2001 to 2006 and has been honored by the U.S. Senate for his policies during that tenure. He has held positions at the World Bank and the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar in International Affairs at Harvard University as well as at Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University and the Brookings Institution. Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy in Washington, DC. 

 

This event is sponsored by CDDRL, FSI, the Center for Latin American Studies and Redwood Press.

 

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Factors Underlying Different Myopia Prevalence between Middle- and Low-income Provinces in China

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Currently available data on myopia and spectacle wear are drawn largely from China’s richer and middle-income areas, and little is known about refractive error and spectacle wear in the lowest income provinces. Studies from China and elsewhere suggest that large differences in myopia prevalence may exist between areas of different socioeconomic status within countries, but reasons for these differences are not well understood. The current report details the prevalence and predictors of myopia measured using the identical protocols and equipment in adjoining provinces of western China, middle-income Shaanxi and low-income Gansu. Study methods including institutional review board approvals and consent have been described elsewhere.

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Zhongqiang Zhou
Qianyun Chen
Mirjam E. Meltzer
Carlos Price-Sanchez
Mingguang He
Scott Rozelle
Ian Morgan
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