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Population and Health

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demography   the scientific study of population characteristics  
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carrying capacity   the maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely  
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overpopulation   occurs when the number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to sustain life at a decent standard of living  
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ecumene   the portion of earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement  
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arithmetic density   people/land area  
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physiological density   people/arable land  
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agricultural density   farmers/arable land  
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natural increase rate (NIR)   the percent by which a population grows in a year  
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doubling time   the number of years needed to double a population  
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natural increase   occurs when births (fertility) exceed deaths (mortality)  
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crude birth rate (CDR)   (live births/year)/1,000 people  
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crude death rate (CDR)   (deaths/year)/1,000 people  
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total fertility rate (TFR)   the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years  
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infant mortality rate (IMR)   the annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age (# of deaths age 0-1/1,000 live births)  
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demographic transition   a process of change in a society's population from high crude birth and death rates and low natural increase rate to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low natural increase rate, and higher total population  
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stage 1   low growth: very high birth and death rates, very low natural increase rate  
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stage 2   high growth: high birth rate, rapidly decreasing death rates, very high natural increase rate  
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stage 3   moderate growth: rapidly decreasing birth rate, moderately decreasing death rate, moderate natural increase rate  
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stage 4   low growth: very low birth rate, low/slightly increasing death rate, low to negative natural increase rate  
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life expectancy   the average number of years an individual can be expected to live  
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elderly support ratio   the number of working-aged people (15-64) divided by the number of persons 65 and older  
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dependency ratio   the number of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years  
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population pyramid   a bar graph that displays the percent of a place's population for each age and gender  
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epidemiologic transition   focuses on distinctive health threats in each stage of the demographic transition  
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possible stage 5   very low birth rate, increasing death rate, declining natural increase rate  
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pronatalist policy   a government policy that supports higher birth rates (China, India)  
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antinatalist policy   a government policy that supports lower birth rates (Japan)  
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neo-malthusian   population will ultimately exceed food or another resource (and already has in some regions)  
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