The Demography Of Health And Health Care

Author : Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048189038

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The Demography of Health and Healthcare by Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas Pdf

In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues. The significance of health demography within the field of population studies has continued to increase and this work provides background on the healthcare arena and systematically presents the various aspects of demography as they relate to healthcare. This addition has been streamlined to focus on the important aspects of health demography and enhanced through the addition of charts, maps and other graphics. All statistics and tables have been updated and the most current references are included. A separate chapter on morbidity has been included and the final chapter focuses on the public policy interface with health demography. Case studies and sidebars are included throughout the book to illustrate the applications of demography within the healthcare arena. Recent developments in U.S. healthcare are highlighted to give the text a very contemporary presence.

Author : Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306473760

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The Demography of Health and Health Care (second edition) by Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas Pdf

This is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992. The authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.

Author : Louis G. Pol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Demography
ISBN : OCLC:464929541

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The Demography of Health and Health Care by Louis G. Pol Pdf

Author : Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401742847

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The Demography of Health and Health Care (Second Edition) by Louis G. Pol,Richard K. Thomas Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Adequacy of Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309175708

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Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes by Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Adequacy of Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Pdf

Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnelâ€"and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.

Author : Roger Detels,Martin Gulliford,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Chorh Chuan Tan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1717 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198810131

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Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health by Roger Detels,Martin Gulliford,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Chorh Chuan Tan Pdf

Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309133180

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The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century Pdf

The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

Author : Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849507141

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Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld Pdf

Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as: knowledge of hepatitis C Virus; health services received and patients' experiences in seeking health care; use of CAM services; and, more.

Author : Véronique Petit,Kaveri Qureshi,Lecturer in Global Health Equity Kaveri Qureshi,Emeritus Professor of Demography Yves Charbit,Yves Charbit,Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences Philip Kreager
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198862437

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The Anthropological Demography of Health by Véronique Petit,Kaveri Qureshi,Lecturer in Global Health Equity Kaveri Qureshi,Emeritus Professor of Demography Yves Charbit,Yves Charbit,Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences Philip Kreager Pdf

The Anthropological Demography of Health explores the combination of anthropological and demographic approaches to public health research, charting the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health.

Author : Jacob S. Siegel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400713150

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The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging by Jacob S. Siegel Pdf

With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in addition to demography, gerontology, and epidemiology, including medical sociology, biostatistics, public policy, bioethics, and molecular biology, the author treats theoretical and applied issues, links methods and findings, covers the material internationally, nationally, and locally, and while focusing on the elderly, treats the entire life course. The methods, materials, and pespectives of demography and epidemiology are brought to bear on such topics as the prospects for future increases in human longevity, the relative contribution of life style, environment, genetics, and chance in human longevity, the measurement of the share of healthy years in total life expectancy, the role of population growth in the rising costs of health care, and the applications of health demography in serving the health needs of local communities. The separate chapters systematically develop the topics of the sources and quality of health data; mortality, life tables, and the measurement of health status; the interrelationships of health, on the one hand, and mortality, fertility, migration, and age structure, on the other; health conditions in the less developed countries; the concepts and theories of aging and projections of the aged population; and local health applications, public health policy, and bioethical issues in health demography. Given its comprehensiveness, clarity, interdisciplinary scope, and authencity, this book appeals to a wide range of users, from students and teachers of medical sociology, the demography of aging, and public health studies to practitioners in these areas, both as a text in health demography and the demography/epidemiology of aging, and as a reference work in these fields.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030838889

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Population Health and the Future of Healthcare by Richard K. Thomas Pdf

Starting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model. It clarifies what population health is and is not. It discusses health disparities and the social determinants of health and illness and provides new ways of moving forward towards a more sustainable healthcare model in a changing society, thereby pointing out the importance of multi-sector collaboration for collective impact for community health improvement. The book takes this further by providing sources of data to support the population health model. As such, this book provides a must-read for students and anyone working, teaching or consulting in population healthcare.

Author : Stephen Gillam,Jan Yates,Padmanabhan Badrinath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107601765

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Essential Public Health by Stephen Gillam,Jan Yates,Padmanabhan Badrinath Pdf

A theoretical and practical introduction to the basics of public health, written for a multidisciplinary audience.

Author : Richard K. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319654393

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Concepts, Methods and Practical Applications in Applied Demography by Richard K. Thomas Pdf

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques. It allows students from the social and human sciences, demographers, consultants and anyone interested in applied demography to gain an understanding of a wide range of practical applications of demographic concepts, methods and techniques to real- world problems. Featured sidebars highlight relevant terms and concepts and case studies and exercises throughout the book offer first-hand exposure to demographic applications. Charts and graphs supplement the presentation of demographic concepts and a glossary provides an inventory of relevant terms. The first section reviews basic components of applied demography as a context for understanding and addressing societal issues. It details the methods, techniques and data sources applied by demographers in a variety of areas. Coverage includes cohort analysis, data standardization, population estimation, and the use of geographic in- formation systems (GIS). The second section focuses on the substantive areas in which demography is currently applied. The topics covered include business demography, health demography, political demography, educational demography, and applications to urban and regional planning. The book illustrates the many ways in which demographers contribute to the formulation of public policy and the resolution of societal issues.

Author : David S. Gochman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489917577

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Handbook of Health Behavior Research III by David S. Gochman Pdf

Volume 3 relates the demography of health behavior to developmental and diversity issues. Unique discussions of the health behaviors of gay males, lesbians, persons with HIV, and caregivers themselves are included. Each volume features extensive supplementary and integrative matrial prepared by the editor, the detailed index to the entire four-volume set, and a glossary of health behavior terminology.