ApHuG 2.4

Epidemiologic transition theory

seeks to explain how changes in health services and living standards affect patterns of disease

Malthus’s Theory

“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical (exponential) ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical (linear) ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power of the second.”

Malthusian Trap

“let ‘em dieee let ‘em dieeeeee let them shrivel up and die!!!”

Malthus’s proposed solution to overpopulation

Mare famines! More diseases! More wars! Reduce the passion betwixt the sexes!!

The cornucopian argument

Innovation will solve scarcity

The Boserup effect

Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods

Pronatalist policies

Designed to boost fertility rates and ultimately population growth