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.
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