Sociology The United Nations predicts that by 2050, the world's population will exceed 9 billion people. Discuss the consequences of population growth on the world's resources (include environmental and health factors such as food, water, air, access to medicine). Why is the world's population growing so fast? And how is technology contributing to this rapid growth?

There are several major reasons for population growth being what it is. As described by an article on the Yale University website, there are three main ones. Those would be tackling of infectious disease in many countries, improvement in public health overall and improved production and distribution of food. When it comes to food production, just one example of how well food production is done now would be that grain has increased in volume from 631 million tons to about 1.65 billion tones just from 1950 to 1984 alone. This is a factor of 2.6 times. Over the same time period, the world population has only grown 1.9 times. The frenetic pace of food production as compared to population growth has not slowed down in more recent years. In the last ten years, overall food production has risen by about a fourth (24%) and this has also outpaced population growth over the same time period....

Indeed, Yale made assertions about these problems nearly a generation ago. There are a lot of people that are having entirely too many kids. Indeed, high fertility is often correlated (or absolutely caused in many cases) with poverty. This condition is worse in Africa and China, to name two places, but it can be a major issue anywhere when the available money is not enough to feed the mouths that need satiating. There will also eventually be shortages of fuel, water and healthcare (Yale, 1998).
Healthcare Economics

Discuss the economic implications of prescription drug coverage (including generic drugs) on health care, from an individual standpoint and from the health care system standpoint.

The economic implications related to prescription drug coverage are obvious and apparent. In a country where so many people have varying degrees of chronic conditions (e.g.…