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DTM Stage 3&4 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Phenomenon | A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question. |
| Health Care | The maintenance and improvement of pysical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services. |
| Outliers | A person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. |
| Family Planning | The practice of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraceptives or voluntary sterilization. |
| Contraceptives | A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy |
| Economics | The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth and distribution. |
| Politics | The science of concerning the influence of people on a global, civic, or individual level. |
| Sociocultural | Combination of social and cultural factors |
| Advantageous | Involving or creating favorable circumstances that change or success or effectiveness |
| Alleviate | to make suffering, or a problem less severe. |
| Stabilization | To hold steady (especially in economics or government) |
| Education | The process of giving or receiving general knowledge and attaining the powers of reasoning |
| Primary Education | The first stage of formal education in a range of basic subjects. |
| Secondary Education | The second stage of education in the final four years of the education system also known as high school. |
| Higher Education | Education beyond high school, especially at a college or university. |
| Gender Empowerment | Increasing the economic, political, social educational gender, or spiritual strenght of an entity or entities. |
| Integrated | Integrated- having been integrated, in particlar |
| Doubling time | The period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value |
| Replacement level in terms of CBR | Total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to maintain the population |
| Age dependency ration | The ration of dependents-- people younger than 15 or older than 64 -- to the working- age population-- those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working age population |
| Baby boomers | A person born in the years following WWII, when there was a temporary marked increase in the birth rate. |
| Indicative | Serving as a sign or indication of something. |
| Urbanization | A word for becoming more like a city. When population of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. |
| Zero population growth | The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population. |
| Negative population growth | Reduction in population |