Ageing Population

Question 1

Current rate of growth indicates that the earth’s population will double in the next how many years?

Answer 1

60 years

Question 2

How is population growth or decline determined globally?

Answer 2

Crude birth and death rates

Question 3

What factor, in addition to birth and death rates, affects local population growth?

Answer 3

Immigration

Question 4

What is demographics?

Answer 4

The scientific study of human populations, especially with reference to their size, structure and distribution

Question 5

In recent years there has been a demographic transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as the country develops from preindustrial to industrialised. T/F?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What are the effects of the demographic transition to low birth and death rates?

Answer 6

Larger population
Higher life expectancy
Population growth or decline

Question 7

What is epidemiology?

Answer 7

The science and practice which describes and explains disease patterns in populations

Question 8

What is an epidemiological shift?

Answer 8

A long term change in the pattern of disease in a country away from infectious diseases and towards degenerative diseases

Question 9

What is the old age dependency ratio?

Answer 9

The ratio of individuals aged 65 and over in the population to the size of the economically active segment of the population

Question 10

What is compression of mortality?

Answer 10

When there is a greater number of deaths occuring during a narrow time period at the upper limit of the human lifespan

Question 11

What is compression of morbidity?

Answer 11

An optimistic scenario where the increasing proportion of the population will live a long, healthy life in which death will be preceded by a very short period of ill health