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
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The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Series Editor: Kenneth C. Land, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION ANALYSIS Shiva S. Halli and K. Vaninadhu Rao ANALYTICAL THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS Alfred J. Lotka CONTINUITIES IN SOCIOLOGICAL HUMAN ECOLOGY Edited by Michael Micklin and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. CURBING POPULATION GROWTH: An Insider’s Perspective on the Population Movement Oscar Harkavy THE DEMOGRAPHY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE Second Edition Louis G. Pol and Richard K. Thomas FORMAL DEMOGRAPHY David P. Smith HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION IN LATIN AMERICA Susan M. De Vos HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHY AND HOUSEHOLD MODELING Edited by Evert van Imhoff, Anton Kuijsten, Pieter Hooimeijer, and Leo J. G. van Wissen MODELING MULTIGROUP POPULATIONS Robert Schoen POPULATION ISSUES: An Interdisciplinary Focus Edited by Leo J. G. van Wissen and Pearl L. Dykstra THE POPULATION OF MODERN CHINA Edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and David Yaukey A PRIMER OF POPULATION DYNAMICS Krishnan Namboodiri
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The Demography of Health and Health Care Second Edition
Louis G. Pol University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska
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Richard K. Thomas Medical Services Research Group Memphis, Tennessee
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Preface When health demography began to emerge as an applied subdiscipline within demography during the 1980s, few anticipated the developments that would occur in health care to influence its direction. While a distinct body of research categorized under this heading has yet to be formally recognized, the impact of health demography is clearly being felt in the field. The number of health professionals who are using the materials of health demography—perhaps without even realizing it—continues to grow. In fact, most of those involved with health demography are not demographers but sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, and health professionals who are applying the concepts and techniques of health demography to concrete problems in the delivery of health care. The boundaries of this subdiscipline are becoming increasingly visible within demography and the implications of health demography increasingly obvious outside of demography. The US health care
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