Ebook: The Demography of Health and Health Care

"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 and reference, published by Plenum in 1992, the authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.

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"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 and reference, published by Plenum in 1992, the authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Health Demography....Pages 1-18
Health and Health Care....Pages 19-57
The Language of Health Care....Pages 59-86
Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution....Pages 87-114
Population Composition....Pages 115-143
Fertility....Pages 145-175
Morbidity and Mortality....Pages 177-213
Migration....Pages 215-242
Data Sources for Health Demography....Pages 243-280
The Demographic Correlates of Health Status....Pages 281-317
The Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization....Pages 319-355
The Future of Health Demography....Pages 357-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-374

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"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 and reference, published by Plenum in 1992, the authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Health Demography....Pages 1-18
Health and Health Care....Pages 19-57
The Language of Health Care....Pages 59-86
Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution....Pages 87-114
Population Composition....Pages 115-143
Fertility....Pages 145-175
Morbidity and Mortality....Pages 177-213
Migration....Pages 215-242
Data Sources for Health Demography....Pages 243-280
The Demographic Correlates of Health Status....Pages 281-317
The Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization....Pages 319-355
The Future of Health Demography....Pages 357-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-374
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