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| demographic transition | the process of change in a society's population from a high CBR and CDR with a low NIR to a condition of low CBR and CDR with a low NIR, and a higher total population |
| demography | the scientific study of population characteristics |
| epidemiological transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
| epidemiology | the branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that are prevalent among a population at a special time and produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality |
| Industrial Revolution | a series of improvements in technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
| infant mortality rate | the total number of deaths in a year among children under the age of one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society |
| life expectancy | the average number of years an individual will likely survive given current social, economic, and medical conditions in a society |
| medical revolution | medical technology invented in Europe and North America that has diffused to poorer countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa that have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries |
| pandemic | disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
| zero population growth | a decline in the TFR to the point that there is no significant NIR |
