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Izazovi drastičnog pada nataliteta u Bosni i Hercegovini
Challenges of Dramatic Decrease of Natality in B&H

Author(s): Jusuf Žiga
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: B&H Society; population politics

Summary/Abstract: Because of consequences of recent agression and afterwar political crisis, Bosnia and Herzegovina confronts great unfavoruable changes of demographic structure, including anxious decline of birth rate, increase of mortality and other negative tendencies in population growth. These tendencies are confirmed by all uptodate researches and analitically relevant insight in demographic situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Along with exhaust rural arreas and great mechanical inflow of population in urban centres, especially evident expatriation of young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina in other countries, facts that will have additional negative consequences in birth rate of Bosnian population. Family, as very important pillar of society, is in danger up to troubled proportions, especially in domain of socialization of young people. About this tendency testifies not only economic pauperization and reduction of family members, but also rising violence in family and in society, and enlarging sociopathological phenomena, in range from under aged deliquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, corruption all of them resulting in destruction of basic scale of social values and moral in general. What especially worries is careless concern of society towards its own biological potencial. Instead of handling human resaurces as the most valuable comparative advance in development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, human resaurces are irationally undervalued. Hereafter stable biological reproduction is in interest of every society which cares of itself, it would be reasonable that in Bosnia and Herzegovina exists well sophisticated, for all its citizens common pronatality politics. It is absurdity initialization of separate population politics in ethnic heterogeneous communities, which is also society of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Initialization of separate population politics is in process. Because of spatialy administrative and other limitations population politics can’t give desired results, and in addition to that they are discriminant.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 11-22
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian