The Demography of Health and Health Care

• Main Authors: Pol, Louis G. (Author), Thomas, Richard K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Marketing.; Public health.; Population.; Sociology.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Sociology, general.; Public Health.

"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...

Table of Contents:

• Health Demography
• Health and Health Care
• The Language of Health Care
• Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution
• Population Composition
• Fertility
• Morbidity and Mortality
• Migration
• Data Sources for Health Demography
• The Demographic Correlates of Health Status
• The Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization
• The Future of Health Demography.