HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Population Ageing, Canadian Prairies, Demographic Transition
10 Apr 2016
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The study of staisics around death rates, birth rates, economics, incidents of disease. Invesigators around those big trends that happen in society. Phenomenon that occurs where the median age (middle number in a populaion) rises due to life expectancy or declining ferility rates (life expectancy is up have an aging populaion) Number of years you can expect on average for a populaion to live (life expectancy is less for men, more for women) The maximum number of years that an individual could live (actual number of years a human being could be expected to live 122 years) Three ways demographers study how the composiion of a populaion changes in a society. Proporion of the older to the younger: the median, the proporion, the number. Poverty, lack of available support, other environmental and social challenges. Higher health care and pension costs and social support needs. Populaion aging in canada (inish illing in the blanks)
