In sickness and in health : disease and disability in contemporary America / Richard K. Thomas.
"The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Science+Business Media LLC,
[2016]
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| Series: | Applied demography series ;
v. 6. |
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| Summary: | "The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central to demographic study, and surveying ways these data are generated, accessed, and measured. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how this knowledge can be used to better understand--and potentially solve--critical public health issues, benefitting not only populations served, but also areas such as health services planning, resource allocation, and health policy-setting."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : color illustrations, color map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781493934232 1493934236 |
| ISSN: | 2352-376X ; 2352-3778 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed May 8, 2017) |