MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Orphan, Animal Husbandry, Demographic Transition
4 Nov 2016
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Demography is the study of population dynamics, which collects data on quantifiable events and uses this for analysis and projection. Data collection may be problematic specially in poorer countries where censuses are infrequent and it takes several years for analysis and release of data. Demography looks at events; an aids death is an event, but the prior processing period of illness costs and effects are not included. Aids deaths have more serious consequences for survivors. Most post-death consequences are not measured by demography. Life expectancy: level of mortality in a given population at a particular time as measured in years of life. The age at which a person is expected to die. Infant mortality: number of children dying before age 1 per 1000 live births. Child mortality: number of deaths under age 5 per 1000 live births; a better measure of the impact of aids. Crude birth rate, crude death rate, total fertility rate.
