Chapter 2 homework

If a positive RNI is an indication that birth rate is higher than death rate, which stage (or stages) of the demographic transition are consistent with a positive RNI?

Stages 2 and 3, the transitional stages

Consider the current proportion of urban populations in the various world regions. Assuming urbanization rates continue, which region is likely to experience most of the future urbanization, and why?

Sub-Saharan Africa, because even though urbanization is lower, it has the highest urbanization rate.

Which of the following statements regarding stage 4 of the demographic transition is correct?

There is increased access to birth control.

What are the characteristics of a country in stage 5 of the demographic transition?

very low CBR, increasing CDR, negative NIR

At what stages of the demographic transition are the birth rates and death rates about the same?

1 and 4

How are instructions provided for low-cost, unpackaged medicines in India?

Medicines are color-coded depending on their intended use.

Assuming both birth and death rates remain constant over the next 25 years, which region is most likely to experience one of the highest population growth rates?

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Based on your understanding of the demographic transition graph and model, as well as the population pyramids, which stage(s) of the demographic transition would be represented by the pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top?

Stages 2 and 3

Which of the following statements about pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) in India is correct?

The total R&D budget of India is less than the R&D budgets of some multinational companies.

Which of the following medical breakthroughs was produced by the Indian company Cipla?

a single pill for HIV patients

India's historic 1970 Drug Patent Law __________.

granted patents on the process rather than the product

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have which combination of birth rates and death rates?

high crude birth rates and high crude death rates

Currently, India spends _____ of its GDP on public health.

less than 1 percent

The total number of people supported by a unit of arable land is known as __________.

physiological density

Stages of the Demographic Transition Model

pre-industrial, transitional,transitional, industrial, post-industrial

During which stage or stages of the demographic transition does total population rise rapidly?

transitional stages

Countries with a high percentage of their population under the age of 15 have a potentially greater future population growth rate. Which of these is the most likely reason for this?

A large proportion of the population are in their pre-reproductive years and are yet to have children.

Which of the following areas has the highest infant mortality rate?

Africa

What is a key assumption behind India's new drug patent law?

Companies should be rewarded for research activities.

By what method did Dr. John Snow discover that Soho's cholera victims were clustered around a pump?

He overlaid maps to reveal the relationship between victims' residences and the location of water pumps in Soho.

On the basis of the demographic transition graph and model, the population indicators table, and the population pyramids figure, which three of the following statements are probably true?

If we were to place the population pyramids according to the continuum represented by the demographic transition model, they would go from zero growth to rapid growth to low growth to zero growth, with zero growth representing the industrial (4th) stage of the demographic transition. If we know the birth rate and death rate for a given country, we can identify the stage of the demographic transition it is in. Countries with a rate of natural increase (RNI) of zero could be in either the first or fourth stages of the demographic transition.

Which country supplies most of the developing world's low-cost drugs?

India

According to the video, which two countries will likely become the center of the future HIV epidemics?

India and China

Why did India change its 1970 Drug Patent Law?

India joined the World Trade Organization.

What would you infer about a country whose population pyramid has a narrow top and a wide base?

It must be in either stage 2 or stage 3 of the demographic transition.

According to the video, what is one possible effect of India's new drug patent law?

It will cause an increase in prices.

Which statement about Malthus is correct?

Malthus claimed that population was growing more rapidly than Earth's food supply.

Which of the following is true about the effect of the dependency ratio for these countries?

Niger with the highest dependency ratio in the world, would have to devote a lot of resources to cater for the younger population, more so than the aged

Based on the demographic transition graph and the population indicators table, which two countries are most clearly in the transitional stages of the demographic transition?

Nigeria and Pakistan

A higher proportion of net migration and a lower percentage of refugees may suggest that people are immigrating into a country for mainly economic reasons. Which of these group of countries have a high positive net migration rate (at least 5 people per 1,000) but a lower number of refugees (below 100,000 people)?

Norway, Spain, United Arab Emirates

Based on your understanding of the demographic transition graph and model, which country in the population indicators table is the best example of a country that is in Stage 4 of the demographic transition?

Russia