Population & Health

Question 1

Factors of concentration are…

Answer 1

physical (climate and physiology) and geographic (history and industrialization)

Question 2

Concentrated countries:

Answer 2

Asia and Europe.

Question 3

Dispersed countries:

Answer 3

North Africa, North America, North Eurasia and Austriailia.

Question 4

Density:

Answer 4

crude/arithmatic and physiological.

Question 5

Carrying capacity opinions:

Answer 5

catastrophist: population increase will brig on environmental disaster.
cornucopian: technology will advance to mitigate change and preserve our quality of life.

Question 6

Fertility measures:

Answer 6

1. Crude birth rate: (B/P)x1000
2. True fertility: (B/P15-49)x1000
3. Total fertility: # of children a woman will have
4. Replacement level: 2.1-2.5 to replace a generation.

Question 7

Fertility factors:

Answer 7

1. biology
2. economy
3. culture

Question 8

Mortality measures:

Answer 8

1. Crude death rate: (D/P)x1000
2. Infant mortality: (D0-1/P)x1000
3. Life expectancy: av. in years

Question 9

Mortality factors:

Answer 9

1. age
2. health care
3. development
   4.environment

Question 10

Malthusian Theory:

Answer 10

food is linear.
1. food>population
2. food=population
3. food<population

Question 11

Demographic Transition Theory:

Answer 11

1. pre-modern: high fertility & death
2. urbanizing: high fertility and declining death
3. mature industrial: fertility decline and low death
4. post-industrial: low fertility and death

Question 12

Destination countries:

Answer 12

low natural growth, high development.

Question 13

Source countries:

Answer 13

high natural growth, low development.

Question 14

Ravenstein’s laws:

Answer 14

most people migrate short distances with multiple steps.

Question 15

Types of migrants:

Answer 15

1. free
2. forced: slavery
3. impelled
4. illegal

Question 16

Historical refugees;

Answer 16

Syria, Germany, Vietnam and Ukraine. They were all displaced by political unrest, war, or environmental catastrophy.

Question 17

Health D’s:

Answer 17

Distribute, diffusion, determinants, delivery.

Question 18

Epidemiology Transition Theory:

Answer 18

1. Age of Pestilence/famine: infectious
2. Age of recceeding pandemics: sanitation
3. Age of degenerative disease: chronic disease
4. Age of delayed disease: medical life extension
5. Age of infectious return: antibiotic resistance