The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging (Hardcover, 2012)

Preface and Acknowledgments .- Part I. Scope of Health Demography, Sources, and Quality of Data: 1. Introduction.- 2. Sources and Quality of Data for Mortality and Health Studies.- Part II. Concepts and Measures of Mortality and Morbidity.- 3. Concepts and Basic Measures of Mortality.- 4. The Life Table.- 5. Measures of Health Status, Functioning, and Use of Health Services.- Part III. Mortality and Morbidity Considered Jointly and in Relation to Fertility, Migration, and Population Age-Sex Structure.- 6. Health Inequalities, General Trends in Mortality and Morbidity, and Associated Factors.- 7. Demographic and Socioeconomic Group Differences in Morbidity and Mortality.- 8. Gauging Population Health: Measures Linking Mortality and Morbidity.- 9. Reproductive Health.- 10. Health and Migration.-11. Special Health Issues in Less Developed Countries.- 12. Interrelations of Health, Mortality, and Age Structure.- Part IV. Theories of Aging and Longevity and Projections of Mortality and Health.- 13. Concepts and Theories of Longevity.- 14. Models of Aging, Health, and Mortality, and Mortality/Health Projections.- Part V. Applications to Health Policy and Health Administration.- 15. Health Policy.- 16. Applied Health Demography.- Chapter 17. Some Ethical and Legal Aspects of Health Demography.- Appendixes.- A.1. Selected List of Journals in the English Language for the Study of Health Demography.- A.2. General Internet Sources of Data on Health Demography.- B. Review of General Analytic Devices and Special Survey Methods.- C. Glossary.- D. Classifications of Countries and Regions.- E. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Subject Index