Deck 7: Mortality

Question 1

If you live in the United States and are a(n) ________ female, on average you will live longer than anyone else.

A) American Indian
B) African American
C) Hispanic
D) Russian
E) white

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why is John Snow considered to be the Father of Epidemiology? What achievements and accomplishments did John Snow make during the cholera epidemics in London to have resulted in his being so recognized?

Answer 2

Not Answer

Question 3

Why should we not think of life expectancy at birth as a modal age at death?

A) Because death rates vary due to socio-economic variables in countries and regions.
B) Because mortality rates of mothers can be misleading when calculating the death rates of infants.
C) Because high infant mortality rates can cause life expectancy at birth to be low.
D) Because acts of war and violence in areas with low life expectancy at birth can impact modal age at death
E) Because the numbers of deaths vary so much according to their causes

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of following statements about the mortality of the U.S. population is true?

A) Non-Hispanic black females have the highest life expectancy.
B) Non-Hispanic white males have the highest life expectancy.
C) Hispanic females have the highest life expectancy.
D) Non-Hispanic white females have the highest life expectancy.
E) Hispanic white males have the highest life expectancy.

Question 5

What is meant by the racial mortality cross-over in the US? How does the cross-over work? Why does the cross-over occur?

Question 6

Which of the following historical events is not an example of an epidemic or pandemic disease?

A) the Great Plague
B) the Black death
C) the Spanish flu
D) the HIV/AIDS pandemic
E) Syphilis

Question 7

Which of the following is not included in a life table?

A) the probability of dying between age x and age x + n
B) the number of survivors at each age x
C) life expectancy at each age x
D) the number of births for women at age x (when x = 15 to 49)
E) the number of deaths at each age x

Question 8

When studying the death rates patterns of a population, why do demographers usually use age specific death rates instead of the crude death rate in their research?

A) Because death rates vary considerably by age
B) Because we cannot accurately measure deaths per year.
C) Because the Center for Disease Control won't release annual death rates in a timely manner.
D) So that we can standardize death rates and exclude deaths related to acts of violence.
E) Because the US became much older between the 1960's and 2016.

Question 9

Discuss the major differences between the crude death rate and the age-specific death rate? How is each calculated? Which of the two do demographers prefer to use? Why?

Question 10

Who is the father of epidemiology, as reported by Dudley Poston in the Population and Society textbook?

A) John Snow
B) John Graunt
C) Thomas Malthus
D) Harvey Milk
E) Conrad Taeuber

Question 11

What is the main reason why the HIV/AIDS virus has spread so rapidly throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa? Tell me how this reason works. Also, what measures might be put into place in Sub-Saharan Africa to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Question 12

What is known in demography as the Taeuber paradox? Give an example of the paradox.

Question 13

The crude death rate is the number of deaths in a population in a given year per _____ members of the population.

A) 1,000
B) 2,000
C) 100
D) 500
E) 10,000

Question 14

Which of the following symbols is the life table symbol for life expectancy at birth?

A) e₀
B) e⁰
C) o_e
D) o^x
E) e_x