Overview
- The first book to combine the disciplines of Applied Demography and Public Health
- Provides a number of "real-world" examples of how applied demography can be used to address public health issues
- Provides examples of both applied methods and data sources available for conducting public health research
Part of the book series: Applied Demography Series (ADS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Impact of Aging on Health and Health-Related Expenditure
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Cause-Specific Mortality
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Special Analysis
Keywords
- Active aging
- Analyzing health related date
- Blood pressure control in hypertensive diabetic patients
- Cancer incidence and mortality
- Cancer screening in the US and Europe
- Demography and public health
- Early child bearing
- Forecasting health care use
- Global aging and adult health
- Healthy life expectancy
- Implications of aging
- Infant mortality
- Maternal health and morbidity
- Mortality rates for diabetes mellitus
- Obstetric morbidity
- Overweight and obesity
- Population aging
- Public health issues
- Retirement as a risk factor for mortality
About this book
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. Â 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.
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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.
Reviews
I highly recommend this text to academics and practitioners in both demography and public health. Its breadth and depth make it an excellent choice as a companion text in either demography or public health courses.
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Steve Murdock, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Rice University
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Applied Demography and Public Health brings together important topical subjects and useful findings and materials in a single source. The coverage of methodological issues and findings are of high interest to applied demographers and health practitioners. Be prepared to take notes to keep track of the ideas you get while reading this wonderful book.
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David A. Swanson, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California 92521 USA
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Demography and Public Health
Editors: Nazrul Hoque, Mary A. McGehee, Benjamin S. Bradshaw
Series Title: Applied Demography Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6140-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6139-1Published: 30 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9623-2Published: 21 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6140-7Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 2352-376X
Series E-ISSN: 2352-3778
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 391
Topics: Demography, Public Health, Population Economics