Applied Demography and Public Health [Paperback]

This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. ?Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expenditure, cause-specific mortality, and maternal health and morbidity, the book provides several chapters on special analysis and methodological issues.

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The chapters provide a number of resources and tools that can be used in conducting research aimed at promoting public health. These resources include information on a variety of health research datasets, different statistical methodologies for analyzing health-related data and developing concepts related to health status, methodologies for forecasting or projecting disease incidences and associated costs, and discussions of demographic concepts used to measure population health status.

This book shows how applied demographic methods can help address public health issues, with examples from measuring the impact of aging on health care and health costs to cause-specific mortality and maternal health and more. Offers many resources and tools.

Acknowledgements.- INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1:? Introduction: Nazrul Hoque, Mary A. McGehee, and Benjamin S. Bradshaw.- SECTION I:? IMPACT OF AGING ON HEALTH AND HEALTH-RELATED EXPENDITURE.- Chapter 2:? The Implications of Aging and Diversification of Population on Overweight and Obesity and the Cost Associated with Overweight and Obesity in Texas, 2000-2040: Nazrul Hoque and Jeffrey Howard.- Chapter 3:? The Effect of Obesity on Intergenerational Income Mobility: Liana Fox and Nathan Hutto.- Chapter 4:? A Cross-Country Comparison of Sociodemographic Correlates of Depression in the WHO Study of Global Aging and Adult Healƒ0