KINE 2P44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Ageing, Ethnocentrism, Nunavik
15 Dec 2015
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The effects of global population aging will effect every sphere of: population aging is occurring for very different reasons in life developed (canada, japan, us, uk, etc) and developing (china, india, jamaica, cambodia) countries. Voodoo demography: says the end is near by twisting real statistics in a strange way. Bad and inappropriate way of using and analyzing statistics: claims overpopulation will make us run out of resources and everyone will die off. Aging is very complex: not just a number aging is so complex that we simply do not know what is coming. Demography is not destiny [getting to know the numbers: 1800: one billion people, 2000: six billion people, young adults migrate to major cities, majority of population concentrated in a few cities. Epidemiological transitions: as a population ages, the main causes of death shift from infectious, acute illnesses to chronic and degenerative diseases: in 20th century canada, main causes of death shifted from.
