Europe population demographics

Pinkney, Napoleon III, p. 23. A commonplace of demographic history has been that urban populations in Western Europe, beset with epidemics and generally high mortality, did not successfully reproduce themselves until well into the... 

Some hospital units in Europe have recently become more commercially minded and have set themselves up as profit centers within their own hospitals. As financial pressures increase, with the increased cost of medical technology and the unfavorable demographics of an aging population, we would expect more hospitals to go along this route. 

The different population densities in Europe and the USA has also brought about differences in accident emergency plans in the USA, the provision of a complete evacuation of the population within 16 km of the plant in a few hours is adopted, while in Europe the maximum comparable distance is equal to 10 km. It is indeed difficult to assure the evacuation of population centres with tens, hundreds or thousands of inhabitants. Here too, the countries differences in demographic conditions has to be compensated by additional plant features (generally, the use of double containment provided with intermediate filtration systems and the use of elevated stacks). 

Europe, provide relevant information about typical exposures across regions and demographic subsets of the population. There are idiosyncratic exceptions to this mle, however, in the case of ethnic foods such as canned goods in lead-seamed containers imported for traditional local or selective... 

The most comprehensive and valid statistical look at PbB declines in human populations in recent decades was made possible by tracking those declines within descriptive demographic and socioeconomic statistics for the various strata of the U.S. NHANES from 1976 to 2008. Given similarity among industrialized developed countries such as the United States, Canada, and much of Europe, we would expect NHANES trend data to be relevant for these other jurisdictions. In fact, data presented above in international efforts at evaluating relative changes in Pb sources for human PbB levels support this expectation. 

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