SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Smallpox Vaccine, Demographic Transition, Preventive Healthcare

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 335
• Professor: Aniruddha Bobby Das

Document Summary

General topic: author examines demographic transition over time. Starting from 1800, trend towards declining mortality rates, low fertility, longer life and an aging population. What are the four steps: mortality decline, reduced fertility, population growth, population aging. Lower fertility: people have less babies, which means our population gets older, people have to work longer. Lower mortality rate: people are getting healthier, living longer, Mortality declined beginning in europe in the 1800s. Economic contributions by children are diminished by school times. Higher ses parents devote more resources to offspring: increase cost/child. In less developed countries, fertility transition began in 1960s (when our first transition ended) Less developed countries fertility will decelerate as it approached the replacement level. Determined by combination of fertility and mortality rates. Phase 1first, mortality decline preceded fertility decline, causing increase in population growth. Phase 2:then, fertility declined more so population growth decreases. By 2100, un predicts growth will reach replacement level.