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2011 World Population Data Sheet now Available
I noticed that you have the 2010 World Population Data Sheet on your toolkit. PRB came out with the new 2011 sheet today. I just posted it to the mHealth eToolkit if you're interested to see how I updated it.
http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/mhealth/world-population-data-sheet (mHealth posting)
http://www.prb.org/pdf11/2011population-data-sheet_eng.pdf (2011 World Population Data Sheet)
Thank you,
Rebecca Shore
Communications Specialist
K4Health
Poverty, infant mortality, child malnutrition: global datasets
I would like to submit these items for consideration within Global Analysis and Assessment: literature review.
Global Poverty Data Set: At a global scale, poverty is usually represented by national-level indicators such as gross domestic product or population living on less than one U.S. dollar per day. These indicators are not available at a subnational level for most countries. CIESIN constructed global data sets of poverty that are based on estimates of subnational infant mortality and child malnutrition data, recognizing that both are proxies for poverty and welfare rather than direct measures. Data were drawn from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), national Human Development Reports (HDRs), and other sources. These data were first linked to boundary data for their reporting regions and then translated to a common grid.
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/ds_info.jsp
Storeygard, A., D. Balk, M. Levy, and G. Deane. 2008. The Global Distribution of Infant Mortality: A Subnational Spatial View. Population, Space and Place. 14(3):209-229
ABSTRACT:We describe the compilation of a spatially explicit data-set detailing infant mortality rates in over 10,000 national and subnational units worldwide, benchmarked to the year 2000. Although their resolution is highly variable, subnational data are available for countries representing over 90% of the non-OECD population. Concentration of global infant deaths is higher than implied by national data alone. Assigning both national and subnational data to map grid cells so that they may be easily integrated with other geographical data, we generate infant mortality rates for environmental regions, including biomes and coastal zones, by continent. Rates for these regions also show striking refinements from the use of the higher resolution data. Possibilities and limitations for related work are discussed.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117945969/abstract
OK then
Janet, please add the document in the appropriate place.
Global Anaylsis content suggestions
Both of theses suggestions are terrific additions. I think we might need to add a sentence to each abstract to work in the connection to PHE of each of these powerful tools.
Excellent video on health and conservation in Papua New Guinea
Please find a link to an interesting 6 minute video on an integrated health and conservation project in Papua New Guinea. CI is working with the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Organization and the Wooland Park Zoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I30DY0pAYUM
other documents
We used these two documents in the analysis of the PHE community of practice, and might be appropriate:
Nature’s Place: Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity. Richard Cincotta, Robert Engelman 2000
Lessons from the Field: Integration of Population and Environment II: Ecuador Case Study Teresa de Vargas 1999 World Neighbors
upload
I think we can go ahead and upload these two documents.
what about this document?
In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. (June 2009, 26 pages, 2.54 MB PDF.) Climate change impacts are already causing displacement and migration, and consequences for almost all aspects of development, including human security and political stability could be devastating, says this report produced by CARE, CIESIN, UNHCR, UNU-EHS, and The World Bank. Aimed at decision makers, the new report is based in part on empirical evidence from a recently completed research project supported by the European Commission: Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR, Contract Number 044468, www.each-for.eu.) It contains original maps that pinpoint areas where climate change may cause displacement, and policy recommendations.
This is on the CIESIN publications site and looks relavent to PHE
Concise, clear integration
I am one of the authors, so I am biased. However, I think this could be a good addition to the toolkit. It provides a concise integration of information about environmental migration and expected climate change impacts, from very diverse sources, at different scales, specifically targeting an audience of policy makers.
Suggested key words or tags within emerging issues: human migration; population and climate change
Susana Adamo