Chapter 10 Population and Health: Only the Poor Die Young

Chapter 10

Population and Health:

Only the Poor Die Young

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Counting Heads: World Population Estimates; Marx and Malthus

• The world’s population, like the world’s wealth, is very unevenly distributed

• For millennia, the world’s population grew slowly

• Malthus: worried about population growth

• Marx: people are the land’s greatest strength


Table 10.1 World’s 10 Largest Countries in Population: 2010, 2050


Figure 10.1 World Population Growth: 1750–2150


Demographic Transition Theory

• Death Rate and Birthrate– Usually was in balance, but now the death

rate is falling

• Life Expectancy– Infant mortality

• Fertility Rate

• Changing Demographics


Figure 10.2 Population Growth through Natural Increase: 1775–2000


Figure 10.3 Life Expectancy at Birth across the Globe: 2007


Figure 10.4 World Life Expectancy at Birth: 2002–2050


Figure 10.5 Infant Mortality around the World


Figure 10.6 Fertility Rates around the World


Figure 10.7 Global Fertility Levels Relative to Replacement Level


Population Control, Migration, Disease

• Controversy continues to rage over how to best limit the world’s population growth – And whether this is even desirable or

necessary

• Infectious Disease: The Kiss of Death

• New Threats: HIV/AIDS & Other Diseases

• Chronic Disease: Dying by Degrees


Table 10.2 Top Net “Senders” and “Receivers” of Migration: 2002


Figure 10.8 Adults and Children Estimated to be Living with HIV


Table 10.3 Top Fifteen HIV/AIDS Prevalence Countries: End 2007


Figure 10.9 Worldwide Distribution of Malaria: 2003


Health Care Reform

• United States

• Canada

• Sweden

• Great Britain

• Japan

• Russia

• China

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Chapter 10 Population and Health: Only the Poor Die Young