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DTM Vocab Stages 3-4
DTM
Term | Definition |
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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. |
Contraceptives | 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 associated with the governance of a country or other area |
Sociocultural | combining social and cultural factors. |
advantageous | involving or creating favorable circumstances that increase the chances of success or effectiveness; beneficial. |
alleviate | make something less severe |
stabilization | making normal and/or making something average. |
Education | the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. |
Primary Education | the first stage of formal education in a range of basic subjects. |
Secondary Education | a school intermediate between elementary school and college |
Higher Education | education beyond high school, especially at a college or university. |
Gender Empowerment | To give power to women. |
Integrated | To link various parts together. |
Doubling time | The amount of time for a given population to double. |
Replacement level in terms of CBR | having only enough babies to replace the man and the women. |
Age dependency ratio | The age group dependent on another age group. (the percent of people dependent on other people.) |
Baby boomers | a person born in the years after World War II, when there was a temporary increase in the birth rate. |
Indicative | serving as a sign or indication of something. |
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 |
Negative population growth | When death rates rise above birth rates. |