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Three (3) major population processes involved in the study of demography:

Mortality, Fertility, Migration

Factors which illuminates the mechanisms of global population growth and change:

Crude Birth and Death Rates, Total Fertility Rate, Infant and Child Maturity Decline, Life Expectancy and Longevity, Age Distribution: Working-age Population, Migration, Urbanization

number of births and deaths per 1,000 people

Crude Birth and Death Rates

number of children born per woman

Total Fertility Rate

results from improved nutrition, public health interventions related to water & sanitation, and medical advances such as vaccines & antibiotics

Infant and Child Mortality Decline

rise in the proportion of the elderly in the total population

Life Expectancy and Longevity

unusually large working-age (approx. 15-64 y.o.) population created by nonsynchronous falls in mortality and fertility

Age Distribution: Working-age Population

people live in countries other than the one in which they were born which affect age dstribution among countries

Migration

movement from rural to urban areas

Urbanization

stages or phases of demographic transition:

Mortality Decline, Reduced Fertility, Population Growth, Shifts in Age Distribution

decline due to reduced contagious and infectious diseases spread by air or water because of preventive medicine especially the development of vaccines

Mortality Decline

decline in marital fertility, and couples deciding to have lesser number of children influenced by economic factors like childbearing costs and benefits

Reduced Fertility

determined by the combination of fertility and mortality

Population Growth

shows a “dependency ratio” (either younger or older population divided by the working-age population)

Shifts in Age Distribution

should receive family planning counseling on abortion, the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, the nature of human sexuality, and the main elements of responsible parenthood.

The Feminist Perspective, Women

the study of changes in the number of births, marriages, deaths, etc. in a particular area during a period of time

Demography

What are the cause of poverty?

walang pagsusumikap, laziness, no budget allotted for the poor, no access to education, anak nang anak, less opportunities for employment, tambay, overpopulation

Critics of the neo-Malthusian theory who disagrees with Thomas Maltus’s prediction and accused governments of using population control as a substitute for social justice and much-needed reforms such as land distribution, employment creation, provision of mass education and health care, and emancipation.

Betsy Harman

American biologist with his wife wrote ___ which argued that overpopulation in the 1970s and 80s will bring global environment disasters that would in turn lead to food shortage and mass starvation.

Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

a British scholar who warned that the population growth will inevitably exhaust world food supply by the middle of the 19th century.

Thomas Maltus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

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Jian Estelle · 23問 · 2年前

Pg 1. Radio-and-Television