{"title":"Reproductive health at crossroads: progress and challenges since the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.","authors":"Fan Yang, Heini Väisänen","doi":"10.1007/s42379-025-00208-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-025-00208-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) stand at a critical juncture. This commentary reviews the progress, persistent gaps, and new challenges since ICPD. It focuses on three main domains along the reproductive continuum: prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV; infertility and assisted reproductive technologies; and pregnancies not ending in live births, including induced abortion, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth. Since ICPD in Cairo, scientific advances have transformed prevention and care. These advances have greatly improved population health and expanded reproductive options. However, their benefits are unevenly distributed. Socioeconomic inequities persist; marginalized populations are the least likely to benefit from innovation. Meanwhile, antimicrobial resistance, stigma, and underfunded health systems threaten sustainability. In infertility care, global disparities in access to services coexist with risks of over-medicalization and commercialization in some high-income settings. For pregnancies not ending in live births, restrictive abortion policies, ongoing stigma, and lack of recognition of miscarriage and stillbirth continue to undermine health, autonomy, and equity. Emerging pressures-including climate change, demographic shifts, and declining political and financial support to SRHR-put progress at risk. We argue that recommitment to the ICPD's rights-based, human-centered framework is needed. The future SRHR agenda must combine scientific innovation with social justice, solid financing, ethical governance, and intersectional policy. Only then can we protect gains and prevent deeper reproductive inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"9 4","pages":"406-432"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12987782/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The longitudinal associations of remote intergenerational communication with instrumental activities of daily living among older adults","authors":"Zhengyu Wu, Dewen Wang","doi":"10.1007/s42379-024-00155-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-024-00155-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141646709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hangkong Zhang, Weikang Jiang, Lei Yang, Huiping Zheng
{"title":"Impact of cross-provincial population migration on population aging in China: 2000–2020","authors":"Hangkong Zhang, Weikang Jiang, Lei Yang, Huiping Zheng","doi":"10.1007/s42379-024-00150-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-024-00150-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"264 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139842333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hangkong Zhang, Weikang Jiang, Lei Yang, Huiping Zheng
{"title":"Impact of cross-provincial population migration on population aging in China: 2000–2020","authors":"Hangkong Zhang, Weikang Jiang, Lei Yang, Huiping Zheng","doi":"10.1007/s42379-024-00150-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-024-00150-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"25 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139782038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Zeng, Zhenglian Wang, Qiushi Feng, Danan Gu, Junni Zhang, Wei Tang, Kenneth Land
{"title":"Extend the ProFamy cohort-component method to conduct probabilistic households and living arrangement projections.","authors":"Yi Zeng, Zhenglian Wang, Qiushi Feng, Danan Gu, Junni Zhang, Wei Tang, Kenneth Land","doi":"10.1007/s42379-024-00171-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42379-024-00171-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this commentary, we first briefly review the significant utilities of household and living arrangement projections and the main types of methods for conducting household projections. In the second and third sections, we summarize basic ideas, data needed, assessments and applications of ProFamy extended cohort-component methods/software for households and living arrangement projections; and we emphasize the importance to extend the ProFamy methods and software from deterministic to probabilistic households and living arrangement projections. In section 4, we demonstrate that the ProFamy approach provides an adequate and highly feasible modelling framework to extend probabilistic households and living arrangement projections (PHPs), in which the population size/structure projection outcomes are in consistence with those of probabilistic population projections (PPPs) released by United Nations Population Division (UNPD). In the last Section, we discuss and recommend applying the user-friendly R package DemoRates of ProFamy software to estimate rural/urban (or race)-sex-age-specific standard schedules and the demographic summary measures, to conduct analyses and projections, such as single-parent households, caregivers, and care needs/costs for disabled older adults, age-friendly housing and households-based energy demands, etc. for healthy aging and sustainable development studies. Finally, we discuss the prospects of our ongoing international collaborative research project to substantially extend ProFamy cohort-component method from deterministic into probabilistic households and living arrangement projection (PHPs). As compared with ProFamy deterministic projection method, the PHPs produces a lot of additional outcomes of probabilistically projected households and living arrangements in 2021-2100 with uncertainty intervals that are crucial for healthy aging and sustainable development studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"8 4","pages":"378-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11893638/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic resources, childcare services, and son preference: a conjoint analysis of fertility potential in China","authors":"Jia Yu, Xiaojie Shen, Yu Xie","doi":"10.1007/s42379-023-00146-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-023-00146-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"252 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139170714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship of internal migration and depressive symptoms as well as its mechanisms: evidence from China","authors":"Yan Liu, R. Liang, Yanan Luo","doi":"10.1007/s42379-023-00149-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-023-00149-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"23 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138955679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The better future projections the more childbirth: the association between subjective social status and fertility desire of the Chinese population","authors":"Peisen Yang, Chao Guo","doi":"10.1007/s42379-023-00147-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-023-00147-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":" 1056","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Older adults’ social participation and social relationship and association with partner’s cognition: a latent profile analysis","authors":"Yiyang Yuan, Changmin Peng, Yan Lin, Shan Qu","doi":"10.1007/s42379-023-00148-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-023-00148-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":" 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138994697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics and implications of the age profiles of inter-provincial migration in China","authors":"Hao Zhou, Xiaoxiong Chen","doi":"10.1007/s42379-023-00145-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-023-00145-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72578,"journal":{"name":"China population and development studies","volume":"15 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}