Fertility
Methods used to prevent pregnancy, allowing individuals to make informed choices about family planning.
What is contraception?
The process where more of a population moves to urban areas, leading to city growth and changes in infrastructure.
What is urbanization?
The expected behaviors and responsibilities assigned to individuals based on their role in society, often influenced by cultural norms.
What are social roles?
Organized medical services aimed at promoting individual and community health through treatments and preventive care.
What is healthcare?
Habitable parts of the world. *Hint starts with E*
What is ecumene?
Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth for economic or military reasons.
What are pronatalist policies?
Positions of authority held in government by individuals representing the interests of the public through law and policy.
What is public office?
Agricultural operations owned and operated by families, often focused on local food production and sustainability.
What are family farms?
A statistical measure estimating the average number of children a woman would have based on current birth rates.
What is total fertility rates (TFR)?
Countries with lower levels of economic development, often facing challenges like poverty, poor healthcare, and limited education.
What are Developing Countries/LDC?
The healthcare services provided after childbirth to support recovery and infant care.
What is postnatal care?
The roles women play in political decision-making, governance, and advocacy in different regions of the world.
What are political roles?
Laws and policies advocating for gender equality and the empowerment of women in education, employment, and politics.
What are womens right?
The decision by individuals or couples to conceive at a planned time, considering economic and social factors.
What is a planned pregnancy?
Countries with high industrialization, technological advancement, and strong infrastructure for education and healthcare.
What are developed countries/MDC?
The healthcare services provided to a pregnant woman to ensure the health and safety of both mother and baby.
What is prenatal care?
The total number of individuals engaged in work, influencing economic structures and population management.
What is workforce?
Farming where individuals grow only enough food to feed themselves and their families, with minimal surplus for trade or sale.
What is subsistence farming?
A measure of the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births in a given year.
What is Infant Mortality Rate?
A population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child.
What is the one child policy?
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase.
What is antinatalist policies?
The ways in which individuals contribute to an economy, shaped by education, gender, and cultural expectations.
What are economic roles?
The functions and impact women have in various societies, influenced by cultural, economic, and political conditions.
What are womens roles/the role of women?
The number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births due to complications in pregnancy or childbirth.
Maternal Mortality Rates
A geographical region south of the Sahara Desert, known for its distinct cultures, economies, and demographic trends.
What is Sub-Saharan africa?