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the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
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Fertility Rates
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A system of health care in which all health personnel and health facilities, including doctors and hospitals, work for the government and draw salaries from the government. Doctors in the US Veterans Administration and the Armed Services are paid this way. And the Veterans and US military hospitals are also supported this way. Examples also exist in Great Britain and Spain.
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Socialized medicine
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To refuse home mortgages or home insurance to areas or neighborhoods deemed poor financial risks.
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red lining
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A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
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mega city
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Economic theory that links population changes to levels of economic, education, and healthcare development. It states that as women become better educated and financially independent, the global fertility rates will continue to decline since women will (1) have fewer children, (2) delay having them, or (3) forgo having them.
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demographic transition theory
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the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits
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eugenics
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the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city
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urbanization
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the study of people and their conditions with in their own environment
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human ecology
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regions tend to grow and prosper when key functions are centralized
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central place theory
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the spreading of urban developments (as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city
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urban sprawl
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A program to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family through the practice of contraception or other methods of birth control.
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family planning
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occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population
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pandemic
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largest number of individuals of a particular species that can survive over long periods of time in a given enviroment, this level depends on the effect of the limiting factors
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carry capacity
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the argument that economic development is hampered by groups who, by their central location in urban areas, are able to pressure governments to protect their interests.
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urban bias
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The number of years that one is expected to live as determined by statistics.
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life expectancy
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The process in which the substance of a thing is completely destroyed, used up, or incorporated or transformed into something else. Consumption of goods and services is the amount of them used in a particular time period.
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Global consumption
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a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
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WHO
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the abortion of a fetus because it is female or the killing of an infant by a relative because it is female.
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female infanticide
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The use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications for the health and education of the patient or healthcare provider and for the purpose of improving patient care.
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telemedicine
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A city widely recognised as a centre of economic and political power within the capitalist world economy.
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world city
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placement of polluting industries in poor areas
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Environmental racism
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A government program to limit or slow population growth, as by birth control education, the wide availability of contraceptives, and economic incentives.
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population control
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The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.
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gentrification
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