Applied Demography and Public Health

Applied Demography and Public Health
ISBN-10
9400761406
ISBN-13
9789400761407
Category
Social Science
Pages
391
Language
English
Published
2013-04-17
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Nazrul Hoque, Mary A. McGehee, Benjamin S. Bradshaw

Description

This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expenditure, cause-specific mortality, and maternal health and morbidity, the book provides several chapters on special analysis and methodological issues. The chapters provide a number of resources and tools that can be used in conducting research aimed at promoting public health. These resources include information on a variety of health research datasets, different statistical methodologies for analyzing health-related data and developing concepts related to health status, methodologies for forecasting or projecting disease incidences and associated costs, and discussions of demographic concepts used to measure population health status.

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