Vocabulary
Social Epidemiology
The study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population.
Includes Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and ozone?
Greenhouse Gases
How much percent of the world's population requires the use of herbal medicine and products?
80% and over
The scientific study of population.
Water Pollution
Mortality Rate
rate of death in a given population
An observable alteration to the global atmosphere?
Climate Change
Warfare and large-scale migration.
What is Malthus's thesis?
Thomas Malthus argued the world's population is growing more rapidly than the available.
The country that is a major source of air pollution?
The United States
Curanderismo
traditional folk medicine; a form of holistic care and healing
Greenhouse gas emissions create this known issue?
Global Warming
What is Migration?
The relatively permanent movement of people with the purpose of changing their place of residence.
Karl Marx's Response
Karl Marx linked overpopulation to the unequal distribution of resources.
A type of pollution that comes from cars and electric power plants.
Air Pollution
Holistic Medicine
Therapies in which the health care practitioner considers the person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics.
People that are forced to leave their home due to climate change?
Environmental Refugee
International Migration
The structure of a country being altered due to the mixture and beliefs of people either entered legal or illegal.
What are the five elements of Demography?
1. Birthrate
2. Total Fertility Rate
3. Death Rate
4. Life Expectancy
5. Growth Rate
Where 80% of water pollution comes from?
Land
Vital Statistics
Records of birth, deaths, marriages, and divorces that are gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
The agreement that 196 nations pledged to respond to climate change?
The Paris Agreement
Internal Migration
Migratory movements within societies, such as moving for better benefits and securing a better working career than the place staying.
What does Census mean?
An enumeration, or counting, of a population.
This was spilled from the Exxon Valdez accident?
Crude Oil