The demography of health and health care / Louis G. Pol and Richard K. Thomas.

"Health demography" has come to play an increasingly important role within the larger field during the past twenty years; the number of health professionals who utilize its methods and materials has grown exponentially. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text...

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Main Author: Pol, Louis G.
Other Authors: Thomas, Richard K., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Health Demography: An Evolving Discipline
  • 2. Health and Health Care: An Introduction
  • 3. The Language of Health Care
  • 4. Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution
  • 5. Population Composition
  • 6. Fertility
  • 7. Morbidity and Mortality
  • 8. Migration
  • 9. Data Sources for Health Demography
  • 10. The Demographic Correlates of Health Status
  • 11. The Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization
  • 12. The Future of Health Demography.