HSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Demographic Transition, Tuberculosis, Population Ageing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 160
• Professor: Tun Myint

Document Summary

Hsci 160 lecture 9: trends in health data. Demography is the study of human populations, their structure and change and their relationship with the natural environment and with social and economic change. Can play a crucial role in understanding past trends and in preparing for future developments and policies. The current population is over 7. 4 billion (and growing rapidly) The majority of growth occurs in low and middle income countries and will put an immense amount of pressure on the environment and infrastructure. Elderly support ratio: ratio between the # of people that are 15-64 to people that are above 65 years old. This affects the bod because people will live longer with morbidities and disabilities. Also affects the financing sector for health care due to the costs of caring for older people. In the previous decade, most of the world"s population has lived their entire life in urban locations.