Pol / Thomas The Demography of Health and Health Care

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4615-8012-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

The 1980s witnessed the emergence of an applied subdiscipline within de mography that is coming to be termed health demography. As yet there is no distinct body of research formally categorized under this heading, nor are there professionals who bear the title of health demographer. In fact, most of those involved with health demography are not demographers but sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, and others who are applying concepts and tech niques from demography to concrete problems in the delivery of health care. Nevertheless, the vague boundaries of this subdiscipline are becoming in creasingly visible, and the 1990s promise to be the era of health demography. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of this new field. The transition the health care industry underwent during the 1980s served to modify dramatically the mindset of those in health care from one based on a philanthropic orientation to a highly competitive business orientation. Al most overnight the industry became market driven and consumer oriented, resulting in an explosion in the demand for both demographic data and health statistics. The need to integrate and interpret data from these two fields has provided a major impetus for the development of health demography. At the same time, the redefining of health and illness along lines more in keeping with a social than a clinical perspective, and the reconceptualization of etiology within a lifestyles framework, have further emphasized the need for health demography.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pol, Louis G.

Thomas, Richard K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Health Demography: An Emerging Discipline.- The Origins of Health Demography.- Major Trends Affecting the Development of Health Demography.- Overview of the Book.- Organization of the Book.- 2. Health and Health Care: An Introduction.- The Relationship among Health, Health Care, and Demography.- The Societal Context of Health and Health Care.- The Structure of Health Care Systems.- Additional Functions of the Health Care System.- 3. The Language of Health Care.- Health, Sickness, and Disease.- The Distinction between Physical Illness and Mental Illness.- The Classification of Physical Illnesses.- The Classification of Mental Illness.- Key Concepts from Epidemiology and Health Care.- 4. Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution.- Conceptual and Measurement Issues.- Trends in Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution.- Measuring the Supply of Health Services.- Implications for Health Care Delivery.- 5. Population Composition.- Compositional Measures.- Measures of Compositional Variation.- Compositional Description and Trends for the United States.- Changing Population Characteristics: Implications for Health Care.- 6. Fertility.- Concepts, Measures, and Trends.- Compositional Factors.- Data Sources.- Contemporary Issues.- 7. Morbidity and Mortality.- Morbidity.- Mortality.- Contemporary Issues.- 8. International and Internal Migration.- Migration Concepts and Measures.- Immigration Trends.- Internal Migration.- Implications for Health and Health Care.- 9. Data Sources for Health Demography.- Sources.- 10. The Demographic Correlates of Health Status.- Review of Health/Illness Concepts.- Measures of Health Status.- Demographic Correlates of Health Status.- Conclusions.- 11. Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization.- Utilization Indicators.- Health Services Utilization.- Hospital Admissions.- Demographic Correlates of Utilization.- Market Responses to Health Services Demand.- 12. Demographic Change and Health Care Policy.- Demographic Context.- Health Care Environment.- Macro Policies.- Micro Policies.- Health Care Policy in the Twenty-First Century.