FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kangaroo Care, Attention Span, Stethoscope

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

Human development: the way people grow and change across the life span; includes people"s biological, cognitive, psychological and social functioning. Culture: total pattern of a group"s customs, beliefs, art and technology. Globalization: increasing connections between different parts of the world trade, travel, migration, communication. An understanding of how human development takes place in counties all over the world. Striking demographic feature is human population size. Total fertility rate (tfr): in a population, the number of births per women (currently 2. 8, decline to 2. 1 by 2050) Replacement rate is 2. 1 of a stable population. Distinguish between the demographic profiles of developed countries and developing countries in terms of population, income and education. Global demographic divide between the wealthy and economically developed countries, and the economically developing countries. Developed countries: world"s most economically developed and affluent countries, with the highest median levels of income and education (18%)