Family and households = Demography Flashcards
Falkingham and Champion
Migration affects birth and death rates.
Balbo et al
Total fertility rate has dropped = better contraception / more women working / more child centredness in society.
Office of National Statistics
Birth rate = increased - women of all ages are having children / better Government support for families.
Norman
decline in youth dependency ratio = good in short term / bad in long term.
Evandrou et al
one of the biggest factors affecting death rate = decline in infant mortality rate.
Moore
decline in the death rate = the adoption of the biomedical health model.
Tranter
fall in the death rate = antibiotics and their dispensation through the NHS.
McKeown
fall in the death rate isn’t due to medical advances it is due to improved public health and hygiene.
Marmot Review
working classes die earlier = more physical work / psychological factors.
Key
more old people = more spending on the NHS and social care.
Hockey and James
being elderly = a social construct.
Green
we are guilty of individual and institutional ageism.
Vincent
structure of society forces the elderly to be vulnerable.
Featherstone and Hepworth
in a post-modern society people are free to reject the chronological age.
Raghurmam and Erel
most migration is due to social networks.
