Overview
- Is the only book available focusing on morbidity and morbidity analysis
- Applies a systematic approach beginning with the defining of morbidity and progressively outlining the steps in morbidity analysis
- Includes materials from health-related fields not typically available to demographers
- Advances the field of applied demography and supplements other works in the Springer Applied Demography series
- Benefits from the insights of 40+ years of applied health demography work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Applied Demography Series (ADS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central to demographic study, and surveying ways these data are generated, accessed, and measured. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how this knowledge can be used to better understand—and potentially solve—critical public health issues, benefitting not only populations served, but also areas such as health services planning, resource allocation, and health policy-setting.
To make this material useful to the most readers, this reference:
- Explains why and how morbidity data are categorized by health professionals and other data users.
- Examines various methods of identifying and measuring morbidity data.
- Identifies demographic and non-demographic factors associated with morbidity.
- Describes and evaluates sources of U.S. morbidity data.
- Reviews the current state of morbidity in the U.S., and what it means for healthcare and society in general.
- Suggests future uses of morbidity data in reducing health disparities and improving population health.
In Sickness and In Health is uniquely relevant to demographers and demography students, public health professionals, and epidemiologists. Its presentation of concepts and applications makes the book a valuable classroom text and a useful guide for those addressing challenges facing U.S. healthcare.
Reviews
“In Sickness and In Health provides detailed, well-exampled information on an immediately relevant subject, morbidity. … The text is clear without getting bogged down in jargon, and if terms are unclear, readers can consult the brief glossary that provides succinct definitions. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (J. P. Bourgeois, Choice, Vol. 53 (12), September, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard K. Thomas is Partner and Vice President of Health and Performance Resources in Memphis, TN. He is also Instructor and Research Associate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. Thomas is the author of Health Services Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide, published by Springer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: In Sickness and In Health
Book Subtitle: Disease and Disability in Contemporary America
Authors: Richard K. Thomas
Series Title: Applied Demography Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3423-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3421-8Published: 19 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3423-2Published: 18 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2352-376X
Series E-ISSN: 2352-3778
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 213
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Epidemiology, Health Informatics