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HUG Chap 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| demography | scientific study if population characteristics |
| overpopulation | the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
| ecumene | portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| crude birth rate (CBR) | total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
| crude death rate (CDR) | total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
| natural increase rate (NIR) | percent by which a population grows in a year. CBR-CDR converted to a percent |
| doubling time | number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| total fertility rate (TFR) | number of births in society. average number of children a woman will have throughout her child bearing years |
| infant mortality rate (IMR) | annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age compared with total live births |
| life expectancy | measure the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels |
| demographic transition | change in a societys population |
| agricultural revolution | the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| industrial revolution | began in england. conjunction of major improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market |
| medical revolution | medical technology invented in europe and north america diffused to less developed countries in africa, asia, and latin america |
| zero population growth (ZPG) | a country reaches stage 4 of the demographic transition when the CBR declines to the point where it equals the CDR and the NIR approaches zero |
| population pyramid | a countries population displayed by age and gender groups on a bar graph |
| dependency ratio | number of people who are too young or old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years |
| census | official count or survey of population |
| epidemiologic transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
| epidemiology | study of disease transition |
| pandemic | (of a disease) widespread over a whole country or the world |
| sex ratio | proportional distribution of the sexes in a population. number of males per 100 females |
| stage 1 name | low growth |
| stage 2 name | high growth |
| stage 3 name | moderate growth |
| stage 4 name | low growth |
| stage 1 CBR CDR | high cdr high cbr low nir |
| stage 2 CBR CDR | high cbr cdr drops sharply nir high |
| stage 3 CBR CDR | cbr declines cdr stays low |
| stage 4 CBR CDR | cbr low cdr low nir= zpg |
| malthusian theory | the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies |
| moral restraint | only thing that can stop the malthusian theory |
| who is the malthusian theory named after? | thomas malthus |
| when and where was the malthusian theory created? | 1798 England |
| what book was the mathusian theory published in? | An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| what stage society is the mathusian theory based on? | stage 2 |
| what do neo- malthusians believe? | that thomas malthus was right, and things are even worse than he said |
| who are some neo-malthusians? | Robert Kaplan, Thomas Fraser Homer-Dixon |
| what do malthusian critics believe? | malthus didn't see possibilism, and lots of people being a good thing |
| what do marxists believe? | that wealth should be distributed to meet peoples basic needs, and that the issue is not that there isn't enough, just people taking more than they need. |
| stage 1 epidemologic transition name | pestilence and famine |
| what is pestilence | infectious contagious rap spreading epidemic diseases |
| what is famine | lack of food |
| who and when formulated the epidemologic transition | abdel Omran 1971 |
| stage 2 epidemologic transition stage | receding pandemics |
| why was stage 2 receding pandemics? | because of the industrial revolution and improved hygeine and medicine |
| why was stage 1 pestilence and famine? | because hygeine and medicine not advanced, no technology, instability in food, and the black plague |
| stage 3 name epidemiologic transition | degernerative and human related diseases |
| degenerative | overtime/ chronic disorders with aging |
| example of diseases in stage 3 epidemiologic transition | cancer, cardiovascular |
| stage 4 name epidemiologic transition | delayed degenerative diseases |
| why is stage 4 epidemiologic transition delayed degenerative diseases? | because it is the same as stage 3 but the treatments have been more developed and people live longer with them |
| stage 5 epidemiologic transition | reemergance |
| why is stage 5 reemergance? | it states that all the eradicated diseases will come back and kill large amounts of population |
| why will diseases reemerge | evolution of diseases immune to cures, poverty because of no infrastructure and way to deal with disease, and improved travel because easier for disease to spread |
| who disagrees with Malthusian theory? | Karl Marx, and Friederich Engels |
| where are the highest NIRs | africa and southwest asia |
| where are the highest and lowest CBRs | highest= sub-saharan africa and middle east lowest= europe |
| where are the highest and lowest TFRs | highest= sub-saharan africa and middle east lowest=europe |
| not one of the four regions of the world that 3/4 of the population is in | sub-saharan africa |
| what stage have we been in the longest on earth | stage 1 |
| where are the highest and lowest IMRs | highest= sub-saharan africa lowest= western europe |
| life expectancy in africa | low forties |
| life expectancy in europe, asutralia, north america, japan | late seventies |
| what is europes CDR like? | relatively high |
| how much of the worlds population is under age 15? | 1/3 |
| where were CBR declines rapid in 1980-90s? | Middle East, Latin America, South Asia |
| how can CBR's be controlled? | economic development and distribution of contraceptives |
| how many couples in north america and western europe use family planning methods? | 3/4 |
| what country has the highest rate of family planning? | china |
| where are the lowest rates of family planning? | sub-saharan africa |
| where were the first cases of the avian flu recorded? | southeast asia |
| where are the highest rates of HIV infection? | sub saharan africa |
| how much of earths surface do 3/4 of the world live? | 5% |
| where are the highest population densities found? | asia, europe, central america |
| where are the lowest population densities found? | australia and north and south america |
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