Chapter 13-Population, Health & Environment

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

Stats study of pop dynamics, discipline committed to studying patterns

Question 2

Fertility

Answer 2

Number of children born in a given period of time

Question 3

Crude birth rate

Answer 3

Number of live births per 1,000 people in the pop in a given year

Question 4

Total fertility rate

Answer 4

Average number of children a women would have during her lifetime given current birth rates and assuming she survives through childbearing years

Question 5

Replacement fertility rate

Answer 5

Minimum number of children a woman would need to average in her lifetime to reproduce the pop in the next generation

Question 6

Crude death rate

Answer 6

Number of deaths per 1,000 people in a pop in a given year

Question 7

Infant mortality rate

Answer 7

Number of deaths in infants less than one-year-old per 1,000 live births per year

Question 8

Life expectancy

Answer 8

Projected number of years a person can expect to live based on their year of birth

Question 9

Migration

Answer 9

Movement of people from one pop group to another

Question 10

Immigration

Answer 10

Individuals join a pop group of which they were not previously a member

Question 11

Emigration

Answer 11

Members of a pop leave that group

Question 12

Growth rate

Answer 12

Combining data on births, death, and migration, overran percent change in that pop per year

Question 13

Demographic transition

Answer 13

Model predicts that as societies transform from preindustrial to postindustrial, their pop size shift from small but stable with high birth and death rates through a period of significant pop growth, to large but stable when both birth and death rates are low

Question 14

Health

Answer 14

State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Question 15

Culture-bound syndrome

Answer 15

Disease/illness that cannot be understood apart from some specific social context

Question 16

Sick role

Answer 16

Form of legitimate deviance in which someone who is ill assumes a corresponding set of rights and responsibilities

Question 17

Medicalization

Answer 17

Process of redefining new areas of social life as the leg image domain of medical expensive and theorist use the phrase medicalization of society to refer to describe how the jurisdiction of medical professionals has expanded over time

Question 18

Brain drain

Answer 18

Physicians and other skilled individuals who are needed in ethic home countries moving to live and work in the US and other industrialized countries

Question 19

Social epidemiology

Answer 19

Study of the role social factors play in disease development and distribution throughout a pop

Question 20

Prevalence

Answer 20

Two key measures used in social epidemiology, total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist t a given time

Question 21

Incidence

Answer 21

Number of new cases of a specific disorder that occur within a given pop during a specified period of time

Question 22

Morbidity rates

Answer 22

Disease incidence figures as presented as rates

Question 23

Mortality rates

Answer 23

Incidence of death in a given pop

Question 24

Curanderismo

Answer 24

Form of holistic health care and healing

Question 25

Holistic medicine

Answer 25

Therapies in which health care practitioner considers the persons physical, mental, emotional,and spiritual characteristics

Question 26

Human ecology

Answer 26

Area of study that is concerned with interrelationships between people and their environment

Question 27

Environmental justice

Answer 27

Legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards

Question 28

Medicaid

Answer 28

Non contributory federal and state insurance plan for the poor