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DTM Vocabulary (3-4)
DTM Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Phenomenon | a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question. |
Health care | the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services. |
Outliers | people or things that are exceptions to the normal average. |
Family planning | the practice of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraception or voluntary sterilization. |
Contreceptives | a device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy. |
Economics | the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. |
Politics | the activities of governments concerning the political relations between countries. |
Sociocultural | combining social and cultural factors. |
Advantages | a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position. |
Alleviate | make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe. |
Stablization | making normal and or making something average. |
Education | the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. |
Primary education | primary education is the first stage of formal education in a range of basic subjects. |
Secondary education | secondary schools may be called high schools, gymnasia, lyceums, middle schools, sixth-form, sixth-form colleges, vocational schools, or preparatory schools, and the exact meaning of any of these varies between the countries. |
Higher education | education beyond high school, especially at a college or university. |
Gender empowerment | to give power to women. |
Intergrated | link various parts together. |
Doubling time | the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value. |
Replacement level in terms of CBR | having only enough babies to replace the man and the woman. |
Age dependency ratio | an age group dependent of other age groups (% of people depending on others) |
Baby boomers | a person born in the years following World War II, when there was a temporary marked increase in the birth rate. |
Indicative | denoting a mood of verbs expressing simple statement of a fact. |
Urbanization | the increasing number of people that migrate from rural to urban areas. |
Zero population growth | the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population. |
Negative population growth | a contraction in a country's economy, as evidenced by a decrease in its gross domestic product (GDP) during any quarter of a given year. |