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Population
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Over Population
- High concentration of people in their child bearing years
- Children bring in income
- Large families in traditional societies represent social status
- Rich land owners have servants get sterilized in India's " GUns for Sterilization" program, and kept the gun license for themselves
- Contreceptives may not be available or people may be against them for their political or religious beliefs.
- Children help elderly and sick
- More children for religious, political or social reasons
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Population Pyramid
- Graphic Device that represents a population's age and sex composition
- Base is younger population, tip is oldest
- Males on left side, females on right
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Population Momentum
- Even when total fertility declines, there is a lag period before the rate of natural increase declines. This is because people who have already been born build momentum into the population.
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Population density: Number of people who live in a unit of area
- Arithmetic density: Divides the total population by total land area
- Physiological density: divide total population by the total arable land
- Agricultural density: Ratio between number of farmers per unit of arable land in a specific area
- Nutritional density: Ratio between the total population and the land being farmed in an area
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Epidemiologic Transition Model
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Epidemiology
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Concerned with increase , distribution and control of diseases over a large area or number of people
- Deals with Scale and Connectivity (Distribution and Diffusion of the disease
- A.K.A. ETM
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ETM and Demographical Transition Model
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ETM deals with causes of death related to the DTM
- Stage 1 of ETM matches up with stage 1 of DTM. - True for all stages
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Stage 1
- Founded by Abel Omran in 1971
- Stage of plague and famine
- Infectious and parisitic diseases and human and and animal attacks. Also accidents
- Thomas Malthus called this stage "natural checks"
- Ex: Black Plague
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Stage 2
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Receding Pandemics
- Define:Pandemics - Over a wide area and high percentage of population affected
- Ex: Cholera. During the Industrial revolution due to poor water sanitation and over crowding
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Debate over stage 5
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Infectious and parasitic diseases reemerging
- Evolution - Microbes becoming immune to antibiotics
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Poverty- Some couyntries dont have the medical services to stop certain diseases
- Ex: TB is cointrolled in the USA but not in lesser developed countries
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Travel. Diffusion of diseases.
- Ex: SARs from China