Title:	The Demography of Health and Healthcare
Authors:	Louis G. Pol Richard K. Thomas
Keywords:	Healthcare
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Health demography is a subdiscipline within the fi eld of demography that involves the application of the content and methods of demography to the study of health and healthcare. Demography , or the study of human populations, focuses on the study of the size, distribution, and composition of populations, as well as related dynamic processes such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Health and healthcare refer, respectively, to the condition of health as experienced by individuals and populations and to the operation of the healthcare delivery system. Health demography concerns itself with the manner in which demographic attributes in fl uence both the health status and health behavior of populations and how, in turn, health-related phenomena affect demographic attributes. Health demography shares an interest in individual-level health issues with clinical medicine and in population-level health issues with social epidemiology. The scope of health demography is quite broad, and there is little within the discipline of demography that does not have some relevance for the study of health and healthcare. At the same time virtually every aspect of “health” is amenable to study by means of demographic techniques and perspectives. Whether the issue is the cause or consequence of disease, variations in health status among populations, utilization levels for various health services, the attitudes of health professionals, disparities in medical outcomes, or even the organization of the healthcare delivery system, it can be better understood through the use of demographic perspectives, concepts, methods, and data.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52563
ISBN:	978-90-481-8903-8
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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