GEOG 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preventive Healthcare, Prenatal Care, Bubonic Plague

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12 Oct 2016
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Environmental factors: arithmetic density, physiological density. Mortality: crude death rate: total # of live deaths per 1000 people in 1 year. Life expectancy: the average number of years a new born infant can expect to live, lack of proper heath care/modern facilities, educator (low literacy, rural population- accessibility, sanitation-very poor. Infant mortality rate: total # of deaths of infants under 1 year compared to the total # of live births in 1 year, prove how well a society is. Prevailing health conditions: lack of pre-natal care, lack of proper nutrition, lack of sanitation, lack of safe drinking water, lack of inoculations. How to improve: poverty eradication, better education for girls, offer preventive medicine. *** each year, the population grows by the population of mexico *** Population growth is not true for all countries or all areas in country. Epidemiology: the scientific and medical study of the causes and transition of disease within a population.

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