In sickness and in health : disease and disability in contemporary America / Richard K. Thomas.
"The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Science+Business Media LLC,
[2016]
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| Series: | Applied demography series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the study of morbidity
- Basic concepts in morbidity analysis
- Categories of morbidity data
- Identifying morbidity
- Measuring morbidity
- Non-demographic factors associated with morbidity
- Demographic factors associated with morbidity
- Current patterns and trends in US morbidity
- Sources of morbidity data.