Richard Osborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Osborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborn |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Health and Family Planning in Community-Based Distribution Programs
Evaluating Population Programs
This book examines cost-benefit (CBA) and cost-effective analysis (CEA) of the planning and evaluation of population and policy programs particularly in Africa Asia and Latin America. With the general reduction of financial resources throughout the world there is now increasing emphasis on the financial accountability and economic justification for such programs. There are several unsettled questions regarding the application of CBA/CEA to popula…
Husbands' attitudes towards abortion and Canadian abortion law
Among a sample of 601 married men, whose wives are in the reproductive ages, religious affliation is strongly related to opinions about the permissibility of abortion under varied circumstances and Canadian abortion law. Education and other influences are altered when the effects of religion are included but some differentials persist within religious groupings. These suggest that secular trends towards increasing levels of education may tend to …
Readiness for exercise adoption
Readiness for exercise adoption
The demographic explosion
Demographic and socio-economic variations in health and family planning behavior in urban Pakistan
Population, Environment and Social Organization
The Sialkot Experience
Family planning as a national governmental activity was greatly expanded in Pakistan in 1965. During the 1965-1969 Third Five-Year Plan an attempt was made to provide contraceptive information and services to married women in the reproductive ages and thereby reduce the crude birth rate from 50 to 40 per thousand at the end of the plan period. To achieve these interrelated goals of fostering contraceptive practice and reducing fertility a cadre o…
Black Rioters
Further reactions to Blake and Das Gupta’s “The fallacy of the five million women
The author calls into question certain aspects of the model used by Blake and Da Gupta to support their thesis that a much smaller number of women (1.2 million) are in need of family planning services than the numbers estimated by Campbell (4.6 million). The major difference in numbers between the 2 estimates relates to the exclusion by Blake and Das Gupta of 2.6 million women who were either using a reliable method of contraception or were again…
Social rank and self-health evaluation of older urban males
Social rank and self-health evaluation of older urban males
Health and Family Planning in Community-Based Distribution Programs
The Sialkot Experience
Family planning as a national governmental activity was greatly expanded in Pakistan in 1965. During the 1965-1969 Third Five-Year Plan an attempt was made to provide contraceptive information and services to married women in the reproductive ages and thereby reduce the crude birth rate from 50 to 40 per thousand at the end of the plan period. To achieve these interrelated goals of fostering contraceptive practice and reducing fertility a cadre o…
Black Rioters
Further reactions to Blake and Das Gupta’s “The fallacy of the five million women
The author calls into question certain aspects of the model used by Blake and Da Gupta to support their thesis that a much smaller number of women (1.2 million) are in need of family planning services than the numbers estimated by Campbell (4.6 million). The major difference in numbers between the 2 estimates relates to the exclusion by Blake and Das Gupta of 2.6 million women who were either using a reliable method of contraception or were again…
Social rank and self-health evaluation of older urban males
Population, Environment and Social Organization
The Sialkot Experience
Family planning as a national governmental activity was greatly expanded in Pakistan in 1965. During the 1965-1969 Third Five-Year Plan an attempt was made to provide contraceptive information and services to married women in the reproductive ages and thereby reduce the crude birth rate from 50 to 40 per thousand at the end of the plan period. To achieve these interrelated goals of fostering contraceptive practice and reducing fertility a cadre o…
Demographic and socio-economic variations in health and family planning behavior in urban Pakistan
The demographic explosion
Husbands' attitudes towards abortion and Canadian abortion law
Among a sample of 601 married men, whose wives are in the reproductive ages, religious affliation is strongly related to opinions about the permissibility of abortion under varied circumstances and Canadian abortion law. Education and other influences are altered when the effects of religion are included but some differentials persist within religious groupings. These suggest that secular trends towards increasing levels of education may tend to …
Readiness for exercise adoption
Readiness for exercise adoption
Evaluating Population Programs
This book examines cost-benefit (CBA) and cost-effective analysis (CEA) of the planning and evaluation of population and policy programs particularly in Africa Asia and Latin America. With the general reduction of financial resources throughout the world there is now increasing emphasis on the financial accountability and economic justification for such programs. There are several unsettled questions regarding the application of CBA/CEA to popula…
Health and Family Planning in Community-Based Distribution Programs
Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Public health (4 works)