GEOG 142 Chapter 5: PopulationGeographyTextbookChapter5Notes
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Week 5, ch 5 from population, concepts & issues 11th ed. Chapter 5: the health and mortality transition (pg 145 - 196) Scarcely a century ago, and for virtually all of human history before that, death rates were very high and early death was commonplace. Omran (1971, 1977) defined the epidemiological transition (aka the health and. The middle of this century (projection): 9 billion. Morbidity: the prevalence of disease in a population. The variability by age in mortality is reduced or compressed, rectangularization of mortality. leading to an increased. This means that most people survive to advanced ages and then die pretty quickly. At this level of mortality, only (cid:1152) of babies survived to their 1st bday, and only were still alive at age 5 = this means that 50% of all deaths occurred before age. 10% of people made it to age 65 in a premodern society.
