Deaths and Migration

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Reasons for the fall in the infant mortality rate
Improved housing and better sanitation, better diet, better knowledge of hygiene, child health, and welfare, and medical interventions
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Reasons for the decline in death rate
Social changes, medicl improvements, life expectancy and ageing population
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What examples did Mckeown give about social changes to the decline of death rates
Improved nutrition, Improved housing and better standards of living, less air pollution, decline in dangerous manual occupations, smaller family sizes (spread of disease), and better public knowledge of hygiene
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Reasons for increase in life expectancy
better medical care, welfare support and advice, better knowledge about diet and exercise
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Reasons for differences in life expectancy according to social groups
Working class and northerners(poverty), men( dangerous occupations, drinking, and smoking)
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Ageing Population
Older age groups growing as a proportion of the population
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Reasons for ageinng population
Increase in life expectancy, declining infant mortality, and declining fertility.
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Effects of an ageing population
Public services, increase in number of one person pensioner households, overcrowding, the need to social changes
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What positive consequences are there for an ageing population
the recent emergence of beanpole families, the major life roles for children of grand-parents and great grand-parents, the rising age of retirement.
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The social construction of old age
Old age isnt a fixed biological status (shaped and defined by society), old age is a problem in health care costs, creation of statutory retirement age, and ageism exists
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What consequences are there for immigration?
More ethnically diverse society, greater diversity of family patterns, and racial intolerance
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Economic reasons for emigration
Push (recession/unemployment), pull (higher wages/better employment), and assisted passage schemes (cost of migration paid by governement)
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Reasons for the increase in net migration
Expansion of the European Union in 2004
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What effects the migration and the dependency ration?
Most migrants are of working age which reduces the dependency ratio, and higher fertility rate of migrants.
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What trends are there for internal migration in the 19th and 20th centuries?
19th century: there was the inductrial revolution, and 20th century: the decline in industries led to large residential areas.
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