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Over the past decade the term health demography has increasingly come to appear in the demographic literature and at professional meetings of demographers. As yet, however, no widely agreed-upon definition of the concept exists. Much of the work in the area has been done by neither demographers nor health care professionals but other professionals—particularly in applied settings—who are attempting to make sense of the increasing convergence of demography and health care. This book represents an attempt to delineate the nature and scope of this emerging discipline. Its focus is on the demography of health and health care, which for convenience will often be referred to as health demography.
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Pol, L.G., Thomas, R.K. (1992). Health Demography. In: The Demography of Health and Health Care. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8012-6_1
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