In Sickness and in Health: Disease and Disability in Contemporary America

by 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 to demographic study, and surveying ways these data are generated, accessed, and measured. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how this knowledge can be used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149393421X
• ISBN13: 9781493934218
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"