Family Deomography Flashcards
Falkingham and champion
Population growth is uneven
Migration affects birth and death rate
Balboo et al
Fertility rate has dropped
Society is child centred
Office of national statistics
Birth rate is increased as woman of all ages are having children
Norman
Decline in youth dependency ratio is good and n short term but bad in the long run
Avendrou et al
One of the biggest factors of falling death rate is decline in infant mortality rate
Moore
Decline in death rate is due to biomedical model of health
Tranter
Fall in death rate is due to antibiotics and their dispense from the NHS
Mckeown
Fall in death rate not due to medical advancements but due to increased hygiene, diet and public health
Marmot review
Working classes due earlier die to more physical work and phycological wear and tear of being poor
Key
More old people means more spending in the NHS
Cumming and Henry
Marginalisation of old people is beneficial for society
Hockey
Being elderly is a social construct
Green
We are guilty of institutism
Vincent
Structure of society forces the elderly to be vulnerable
Featherstone and Hepworth
In a postmodern society, people are free to reject the chronological age