SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mortality Rate, Concentric Zone Model, Infant Mortality
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Soc 100 pt 3 reading notes, chapter 21 population and urbanization. Immigration is just one demographic factors that are changing canada. Population will increase in low income areas, will decline in high income nations. Fertility= actual level of childbearing for an individual or a population. Mortality= the incidence of death in a population: crude death rate= the number of deaths per 1000 people in a population in a given year. Crude death in canada has declined dramatically due to elimination of infectious diseases and through improved nutrition, sanitation, personal hygiene, and vaccination. Infant mortality rate is high within canada"s aboriginal peoples. Declining mortality rates led to increases in life expectancy (estimate of the average lifetime, in years, of people born in a specific year. Aboriginals live about 5 fewer years than non aboriginal. Migration= the movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purpose of changing residency.
