PX Demography Studies

Question 1

McKeown

Answer 1

Medicine overrated in explaining demographic trends - death rate falls from C18th due to nutrition, hygiene, public health laws

Question 2

The Marmot Review

Answer 2

Links class, deprivation, and mortality

Health hazards of traditional wc jobs (eg mining)

Social factors like insecure employment & few benefits create psychological wear and tear

Question 3

Key

Answer 3

Over 85s are straining the NHS and housing market

Question 4

Cumming and Henry

Answer 4

Elderly have to be marginalised or they would block opportunities for young people

Question 5

Hockey and James

Answer 5

Elderly is a social construct

Question 6

Green

Answer 6

Individual ageism (patronising the elderly)

Institutional ageism (1/10 over 65s have been harmed or exploited by a career or relative)

Question 7

Vincent

Answer 7

Structured dependency deprives the elderly

Question 8

Featherstone and Hepworth

Answer 8

Personal age replaces chronological age in Baby Boomers

Question 9

Raghuram and Erel

Answer 9

Networks of family and social connections important in understanding migration

Question 10

Falkingham and Champion

Answer 10

Population due to increase and diversify

Births, deaths and migration all interact in complex ways

Question 11

Cases and Miller

Answer 11

Globalisation
Acceleration 
Differentiation
Politicisation 
Feminisation 

… of migration

Question 12

Bradley

Answer 12

Translocalism is the attachment a migrant may have to multiple places -> hybrid identities

Question 13

Norman

Answer 13

Low Birth Rate beneficial for dependency ratio at first but leads to less workers

Question 14

Evandrou et al

Answer 14

Life expectancy rising due to drop in IMR

1985: 9.4
2015: 3.7

Question 15

Moore

Answer 15

Biomedical model of health emphasises prevention over cure

Question 16

Tranter

Answer 16

75% of Death Rate fall due to distribution of antibiotics for infection

Question 17

Balbo et al

Answer 17

Fertility Rate declining bc of:

Contraception 
Economic factors (working)
Cultural factors (women’s role, child centred society)

Question 18

Official Office of Statistics

Answer 18

Birth Rate increase -

More women in 20s having children

Women born in 70s who put children off having them now

Government policies of mat/paternity leave