The demography and epidemiology of human health and aging [electronic resource] / Jacob S. Siegel ; in consultation with S. Jay Olshansky.
With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Scope of health demography, sources, and quality of data
- pt. 2. Concepts and measures of mortality and morbidity
- pt. 3. Mortality and morbidity considered jointly and in relation to fertility, migration, and population age-sex structure
- pt. 4. Theories of aging and longevity and projections of mortality and health
- pt. 5. Applications to health policy and health administration.