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APHG Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Demography | The study of general population trends. |
Population density | A measure of total population relative to land area. |
Arithmetic Population Density | Number of people per unit area of land. |
Population Distribution | The description of the pattern in the spatial arrangement of people, including where large numbers of people live closely together and where few people live. |
Dot Maps | Thematic maps where individual symbols represent a certain number of cases of a phenomenon. |
Megalopolis | A huge urban agglomeration that stretches from Washington, DC in the south to Boston, Massachusetts in the north. |
Natural increase rate | Difference between number of births and deaths in a year. Positive if births exceed deaths, negative if deaths exceed births. |
Crude birth rate (CBR) | The number of live births per year per thousand people. |
Crude death rate (CDR) | Number of deaths per 1000 people among a population in an area in year. |
Contraceptive prevalence rate | The percentage of women ages 15 to 49 who are currently using at least one contraceptive method. |
Doubling time | Time required for a population to double in size. |
Total fertility rate (TFR) | The average number of children born to women of childbearing age (between 15 and 49). |
Old-age dependency ratio | The relationship between the number of people over the age of 65 and the working-age population between 15 and 64. |
Child dependency ratio | Number of people between the ages of 0 and 14 for every 100 people between the ages of 15-64 (working age population). |
Population composition | The structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education. |
Population pyramids | Graphic representations of the age and sex composition of a population. |
Demographic transition | A model suggesting that a country's birth rate and death rate change in predictable ways over stages of economic development. |
Zero population growth | A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births. |
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | The probability that an infant will die before reaching the age of 1 year. |
Life expectancy | The average number of years a person is expected to live. |
Epidemiological transition | Change of the pattern of mortality in a society from high mortality among infants (including malnutrition and diarrheal disease) and periods of widespread famine to high mortality from degenerative diseases which coincide with longer life expectancies. |
Infectious diseases | Diseases that are spread by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. They diffuse directly or indirectly from human to human. |
Degenerative diseases | Generally long-lasting afflictions, now more common because of longer life expectancies. |
Genetic or inherited diseases | Diseases caused by variation or mutation of a gene or group of genes in humans. |
Malaria | Vectored disease spread by a certain type of mosquitos. |
Expansive population policies | Government policies designed to encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth. |
Eugenic population policies | Government policies designed to limit population growth among a certain group of people. |
Restrictive population policies | Government policies are designed to reduce a population's natural increase rate. |