soc- health and population
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- age structure
- pattern of proportions of diff age groups within a population
- birth rate
- number of babies born in a year for every 1,000 members of a population
- census
- periodic head count of the entire population of a country
- death rate
- number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 members of a population
- demographic transition
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theory that human populations tend to go through specific demographic stages and these stages are tied to a societies economic development
stage 1: birth and death rates high
stage 2: birth rates high death rates decline
stage 3: birth rates and death rates decline
stage 4: low birth rate and low death rate-only most industrialized nations us, western europs come to this - demography
- scientific study of population
- epidemiology
- study of the origin and spread of diesease within a population
- healing role
- set of social expectations reguarding how a doctor should behave
- infant mortality rate
- the number of deaths amount infants less then 1 year old for every 1000 live births
- life expectancy
- average number of ayears a group of people can expect to live
- living will
- advance intructions about waht someone wants doctors to do in the event of a terminal illness
- marraige rate
- number of marraiges in given year for every 1,000 people
- sex ratio
- number of males per 100 females
- sick role
- set of social expectations reguarding how an ill person should behave
- vital statistics
- info abour births, marraiges, and migrations into and out of a country